To look back at photo’s and film from 200 years ago…

[knitware]

It would be fascinating wouldn’t it, to watch a film from 200 years ago to marvel at how people lived, what they ate, what they wore and how they spoke. Of course there are no recordings from 200 years ago but in 200 years from now there will be millions of images, and millions of hours of videos and billions of bits of data from the year 2015 and before.

So in 200 years will future generations look back at our images and film and marvel, laugh or be horrified, or will they be non-plus because, well there’s so many images and films and it’s so easy to find and access it becomes not interesting.

[Einion Yrth]

No, they'll be grateful for the shiny discs that keep the birds off the crops, but they won't have the faintest idea why, or how, we made them.

[supertouring]

Everyone will be to busy on their hoverboards to care.

[andy-xr]

knitware said:

It would be fascinating wouldn’t it, to watch a film from 200 years ago to marvel at how people lived, what they ate, what they wore and how they spoke. Of course there are no recordings from 200 years ago but in 200 years from now there will be millions of images, and millions of hours of videos and billions of bits of data from the year 2015 and before.

This kind of assumes that people will still have a method of viewing these things. They'll probably look around for a way to view these things called jpegs that we used to stick on a website back in those early days of the internet

Somewhere in all that though, someone'll still be using a 6310i, the gold one

[Electronicpants]

andy-xr said:

Somewhere in all that though, someone'll still be using a 6310i, the gold one

On the same charge from 200 years ago.

[anonymous-user]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0711230390/ref=mp_...
3d photos from the 1850s. Very interesting to peer back so far..

[xRIEx]

andy-xr said:

knitware said:

It would be fascinating wouldn’t it, to watch a film from 200 years ago to marvel at how people lived, what they ate, what they wore and how they spoke. Of course there are no recordings from 200 years ago but in 200 years from now there will be millions of images, and millions of hours of videos and billions of bits of data from the year 2015 and before.

This kind of assumes that people will still have a method of viewing these things. They'll probably look around for a way to view these things called jpegs that we used to stick on a website back in those early days of the internet

Somewhere in all that though, someone'll still be using a 6310i, the gold one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_obsolescence

Although if they manage to decypher current data, they will no doubt deduce that we mostly followed religions that either worshipped cats, or involved lots of nudity and sex. Or both.

[drivin_me_nuts]

If you look on youtube you'll see a lot of transport videos. Steam trains etc. A while ago I watched one taken at the turn of the last century on the metropolitan line heading north. It's not just the women's dress that seems so alien, it's the fields and open space;fields, crops, space between places. In some locations it's only the bridges that give you a way create a visual link to today.

In 200 years out great great grandchildren will wonder at so much that will seem to them to be utterly primitive and dare I say it, barbaric.

[BrassMan]

drivin_me_nuts said:

If you look on youtube you'll see a lot of transport videos. Steam trains etc. A while ago I watched one taken at the turn of the last century on the metropolitan line heading north. It's not just the women's dress that seems so alien, it's the fields and open space;fields, crops, space between places. In some locations it's only the bridges that give you a way create a visual link to today.

In 200 years out great great grandchildren will wonder at so much that will seem to them to be utterly primitive and dare I say it, barbaric.

Watching Day of the Triffids (1981) and Yes Prime Minister (~1987), they have alcohol at work. It's a bigger shock than the smoking.

[4737 Carlin]

drivin_me_nuts said:

If you look on youtube you'll see a lot of transport videos. Steam trains etc. A while ago I watched one taken at the turn of the last century on the metropolitan line heading north. It's not just the women's dress that seems so alien, it's the fields and open space;fields, crops, space between places. In some locations it's only the bridges that give you a way create a visual link to today.

It's amazing how much things have changed in the last fifteen or sixteen years.

[Schmy]

4737 Carlin said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

If you look on youtube you'll see a lot of transport videos. Steam trains etc. A while ago I watched one taken at the turn of the last century on the metropolitan line heading north. It's not just the women's dress that seems so alien, it's the fields and open space;fields, crops, space between places. In some locations it's only the bridges that give you a way create a visual link to today.

It's amazing how much things have changed in the last fifteen or sixteen years.

[The Don of Croy]

I'd recommend getting a copy of Pandaemonium (The Coming of the Machine) - a collection of contemporaneous accounts from 1660 to 1886 detailing the arrival and development of the industrial revolution in the UK.

Gives a small idea of how it was viewed at the time.

Given that we've just celebrated 800 years of Magna Carta you'd think written words may be around for a while yet.

Then again the cave paintings in southern Europe date back before Homo Sapiens (and were created over hundreds of years).

Films and photos are still cutting edge tech!