The end of history

People who have lived most of their active lives before the 1990ies may think that the computer age will remove our respect for the old.

They are right in the sense that the school books of 1910 will not bring us much new knowledge.

However, the history we are building right now is impressive. Each and everyone of us can keep more and more data from the past: all the music you listened to as a child, the school essay you write from now on, each bank statement, each travel receipt...

It was interesting to study the letters between Abélard and Heloïse. With the arrival of the telephone, that kind of studies became more difficult, because the number of written conversations went down. However, with computers, the number of written records goes up and up. The sky is the limit. Together with our patience.