Will DU be here in a hundred years?

[AlienGirl]

A hundred years from now, will our threads still exist, archived somewhere perhaps, for our great-grandchildren to read?

Will we be immortal?!

Tucker

[mark414]

1. that

is something to think about

[ashling]

27. In the words of a famous American

IDIOT,

"We'll all be dead."

:shrug:

[MazeRat7]

2. No.

[AlienGirl]

5. Why not?

[MazeRat7]

21. We are but noise in the grand scheme of digital traffic.

Now had your question been, do I believe there will be records that once upon a time, one hundred years ago when the internet was but a child, using primitive communications protocols, there existed a site called the democratic underground ? That i would say is possible. Not probable, but possible.

Ask yourself this.. what detailed messages do you know about relative to telegraph traffic from the late 1800's. My guess is none.. buy you know the telegraph existed.

Same song.. different verse.

MZr7

[RagingInMiami]

3. Sure

But you'll have to do a freedom of information request to the FBI.

[benburch]

4. Unlikely the USA will be here in 100 years.

Also unlikely that there will be many places with electric power.

[AlienGirl]

6. Assuming that the USA persists, and that energy does not run out

Those are, I admit, big assumptions...

Tucker

[benburch]

8. HUGE assumptions...

No, DU will be gone as technology will have passed the Internet by.

[MADem]

7. Some geek doing an obscure Ph.D, on political proclivities

...of the Second Dark Ages may be looking at it...and probably complaining about the complex, ancient language and terms, and having difficulty with translations and references. "What IS this ASSHAT? And DOOFUS? I cannot find these words anywhere!!!"

[leftofthedial]

9. at this rate

the planet won't be here in 100 years.

Technically, probably yes.

[arwalden]

10. It's A Nice Thought...

... but I can't even imagine our COUNTRY being here in another one hundred years. Not as we know it now anyway.

But, I think it's possible that we'll be archived somewhere.

HELLO EVERYONE IN 2105!!
How's the weather? WARM?

[sakabatou]

11. Yes, but in paper/electronic records only

[mcscajun]

12. If Google still exists, it will be....but that presupposes that the US

its economy, technological infrastructure and political entities don't all crash and burn in the meantime.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

13. Our spirit will always be here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I like how you put that! nt

[AlienGirl]

15. I've been accused of fearing ego-death too much

And I guess I do...but I so want there to be a record of me a century or so from now...

Tucker

[jukes]

33. tucker

even if the record exists, it's unlikely thtere will be any1 to read it.

[Guaranteed]

16. That is such a fucking awesome question.

So obvious it's genius and no one else has asked it, you know?

If I had to guess...I'd say no. But that would be amazing if it was the case.

I sure hope so. :)

[AlienGirl]

18. Are we ones whose names are written on electrons?

[Guaranteed]

19. Electrons?

Those don't exist.

:P

I hope you get that.

[Robeson]

17. Will the United States of America be here a hundred years from now...?

...:shrug:

[AlienGirl]

20. What message shall we send up-time, to those

who will be here then?

Do you think there's much chance of *anybody* being here then?

Tucker

[Robeson]

22. I think so. Or should I say, I hope so.....

...I don't really look at the World as U.S. or Britain, or France, or whatever. I try to think of the Human Race. If we don't blow everyone else to hell, then I think the human race may be able to go forward.

I try to look at it this way: if a flag is planted on the moon Titan, then two thousand years from now, the human race isn't going to be concerned about whether or not the U.S. of A did it or not. Because by then, this country will probably be another footnote in history, or like the Assyrians, just another imperial country that came and went. The human race is going to be talking about the fact that we, on earth, did it. Therefore, I don't really care what country or nation-state pushes us forward. I just hope that someone does....

This nation/state stuff is temporal. The survival of our species is whats important. And whomever wants to push that forward, then I'm all for it.

[Melynn]

23. I have thought that some day, someone may write a book about DU

So we indeed may become part of history.

[GirlinContempt]

24. This post

is giving me deja vu

[Neoma]

25. Sure!

When pigs fly...

[Skittles]

26. yes, and you and I will be legends, Tucker

yes INDEED! :D

[AlienGirl]

32. Yes!! And the future will know of your power of ASS-KICKING!

:hi:

[DrDebug]

28. Yes and no

It'll be archived, but it will be ancient technology and few will be able to access it.

Anybody remember these:


I still have a lot of them, but they cannot be read anymore.

[Mutley]

35. wow!

I just threw away a bunch of those that I found in my own personal archives. My SO said we should keep them because they could be considered antiques pretty soon and people will want to collect them as such. I said if you wanna keep 'em, go ahead, but if not, I'm gonna trash 'em.

[radfringe]

29. as long as there is a power-grab

there will be a DU in one form or another

[In_The_Wind]

30. ~yes~

if you had ask me 10 years ago ~ I would have said my words will be lost after I'm gone :shrug: now that statement would be a lie ~ and I don't lie ~ interesting ~ what a difference a day can make ... like the day I stumbled into DU

[deliusmax]

31. I can assure you it still exists in 2105

In fact I have just been sent back from that period with a time machine. It was my mission to prevent the U.S. supreme court from making a terrible mistake in November 2000, a mistake that will eventually kill 95% of the world's population.
Because of a problem with the flux capacitor I was accidentally sent to may 20th, 2005 instead.
I am now posting this message here be for my boss to read a hundred years from now so he can come pick me up and send me to the proper time.

PLEASE COME PICK ME UP!

[Mutley]

36. welcome to DU!

:hi:

you're pretty funny.

[Mutley]

34. Where does DU stand in terms of

not only how many members it has, but how many people know of its existence? If we have close to 70,000 members, then we can assume everyone in those member's families know about DU. Plenty of RWers and their families know about DU. And plenty of LWers and their families know about DU, even if they are not members.

So my point is, how much of a household name is DU? The more people who know of its existence, the more likely that in 100 years people will still know that it once existed, and the probability of it STILL existing at that time will go up too.

Am I making any sense here?