Submitted by TOMATO_ON_URANUS t3_111sqo6 in Futurology
Years ago on reddit, I read a thought-provoking piece (not sure if it was an external article or text post) about how, in a theoretical distant future, most people who are alive today will be studied as historical figures. The argument went something like: simply by virtue of exponential population growth, there will eventually be an unimaginably large number of historians, each becoming more and more specialized as any possible piece of historical information is exhaustively analyzed. To the point where each of us here, right now, will be studied just because the information will still be available because it's digital.
The title was something along the lines of "In the future, there will be an academic conference about you"
Any chance anyone knows what I'm talking about and where I could find it?
npqd t1_j8hc40n wrote
I don't think a million of similar works will be interesting to anyone. Things are interesting when they are more or less unique, and here you say about historical studying of everyone living nowadays.