Some of you may not know that we homeschool our kids, well,
it’s more of a public charter school, but we do it at home and we are the
teachers. Today I was teaching the
first grade Hieroglyphs lesson, this is the fifth time I have taught it, and I
thought about something interesting.
The only reason we know as much about the Ancient Egyptians as we do is
because they write absolutely everything down.
Everything, even the food they ate. I read that and it got me thinking
about the modern world, Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. I have never really understood or
enjoyed the numerous posts about people’s meals or other completely mundane
information, but when thought of in this context, someday we will be the
ancient people that archeologists and historians want to learn more about! Of course this brings us back to the
usual longevity argument of digital diaries, and the existence of a purely
electronic historical record, but that’s not my point here. My point is far less innocuous, I may just have to stop complaining about all those food pictures and start pinning more mundane
information than I previously considered necessary for a happy digital life. And perhaps more of you will as
well! Don’t forget to try to keep
some physical copies though, just in case of that common concern of solar
flares!
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