The first of these ideas I wish to discuss a wee bit, is that of the longevity of the written word. JDV states clearly that the chief advantage of the ancient forms of text recording (writing on stone and wet clay) is that they have lasted for thousands of years and have provided future generations with an understanding of that which came before them.

These ancient processes were certainly clever and our pals from the extremely olden days did a great job with what they had- but it makes me wonder about the longevity of todays written word, and even of the spoken word.

In todays world much of what people write online becomes permanent without their knowledge/understanding of it. This becomes dangerous for obvious reasons as nearly anyone with access to the internet can find out what they need to about another person and their life. Therefore our words are forever to be associated with our cyber selves and consequently our real life selves, and this in its self is quite a scary prospect.

Just as we have discovered the histories of thousands of years ago through the visual recording of words and symbols, I wonder if in another 2000 years someone will find my online scribblings and use them to determine what life was like in the year 2014 for a 20 something…

Will people care at all?

Will language still exist?

Will the internet merely be an archaic method of research?

These questions are pressing but also not really my problem- the year 4014 can sort this gear out.

I’ll just be haunting y’all.

Well this was a boring post.

Love to your mum,

Somber George