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Yeah, this makes sense. I wasn’t exactly thinking about the impacts of current events on the future, and that playing into how things are remembered, but that’s a good point.
I think part of what I was getting at is that history is often blurred by memories of the events and the limited media and reporting that stood the test of time. A narrative will form and there will be limited amounts of stats that contradict it.
This aspect will be different going forward. The memory is less relevant since we have an overwhelming amount of media and reporting that lives on. And we also have massive amounts of first hand video footage that.
Maybe history will just be defined by who creates the best narrative out of this massive amount of data. And people will still ignore the contradicting evidence. It happens in real time anyway.
That's a good point that we now have a lot more information/recordings about events. It definitely makes history different. I wonder though if that will actually make the job of historians harder.
Does volume of content indicate what the majority thought/experienced or is there bias in what was saved/preserved?
Not to mention, who is paying to save/keep all of this content. We've found that the internet can remember forever, but doesn't necessarily remember everything (what would happen if YouTube shut down?).