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Sunstang t1_iyeivn8 wrote

We've found roman steam baths and didn't assume they were for cooking people. Archeology relies on multiple context cues to place artifacts in the proper historical context.

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DaviidRs t1_iyeaj8b wrote

Nah, everything will be so well documented regarding modern life nowadays that there's not much that won't be accessible by a quick Google search available well into the future.

They'll probably be able to search the model number up and find it's instruction manual.

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stumblewiggins t1_iyek853 wrote

You are assuming quite a bit of continuity in our civilization for the next 1000 years.

Not saying you're necessarily wrong, but there's a lot of ways that might not be correct.

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Stetson007 t1_iyf1mzj wrote

Exactly. Human society throughout the ages always seems to go through societal high and low points, with your occasional societal collapse (for example , the dark ages.) Had it not been for Arabs building a library in Spain, the renaissance likely would've come much later. When we face our next societal collapse, we should hope someone builds another library of sorts, or we may be going the way of the Indus river civilization.

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Whatmeworry4 t1_iyem8ks wrote

I don’t know about that future. Ever read “A Canticle for Leibowitz”?

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qarasaq OP t1_iyecupp wrote

True. I also thought that they'll just see it as a very old version of tan tech.

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Significantly_Lost t1_iyex3ds wrote

The electric chairs in cement rooms with a viewing area attached should already paint that picture pretty well.

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