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In this documentary video, historians and archaeologists from the year 3000 try to piece together information about The Beatles from 20th Century fragmentary remains. The impact that John, Paul, Greg, and Scottie had on music, culture, and technology cannot be underestimated.
The video was created by Scott Gairdner, a producer of viral humor videos.
via The Presurfer
I think it would have been even better had the errors they made be somewhat more plausible (but still funny)rather than just outlandish and funny.
Makes you wonder how much we have wrong? I don't bother thinking about how they'll remember us in the future. We can't keep anymore information that we already do. Everything you put on the internet stays there forever. Maybe 1000 years?
It could be interesting... especially since future generations will have "remains" of sound, video, and digital media as well as written text and real world artifacts, which will make our generation extremely unique. I imagine 1000s of years from now someone unearthing what is essentially a garbage heap, finding a glass disk, decoding the remaining bits and bytes that haven't been worn away, and finding this comment I'm writing now and the researcher thinks to himself "Wow this guy must have been way to tired, up to late, or not having anything better to do than vent his frustration with some sort of media presentation" which would be true ;)