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Originally Posted by Billi
What will these future generations discover that they can't discover from all the other texts that are written ourdays?
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No idea. But not all texts written 100 years ago are available now, and I am not sure that the increasing digitisation of literature will significantly change that. I also imagine that the authors will be writing with the future in mind, which is very different from how most work is written now, which is for current readers. If I sat down and wrote a story that I expected to be read tomorrow, I think it would look different to something that I am writing which would not be read for 100 years. Even that could change the nature of how future works would be interpreted, as intergenerational learning can be very different depending on how intentional or deliberate a writer would be in terms of what messages or ideas they want to share.