On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/5/5 Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com:
In 3000 years, nobody will give a rat's ass about Britney Spears' discography (again, to pick a random example of "pop culture"). That's a bet I'm willing to make.
Depends if they rediscover "publish or perish". The academic rat race is a study in squeezing blood from whatever stones are unturned.
- d.
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Touché. That being said, this is all still purely hypothetical since a societal collapse would mean that the vast majority of us aren't here to observe it anyway. Especially if it's in 3000+ years :)
-Chad