Vanishing history
Something today made me really thinking about our history and what it means today. And results are actually little bit scary.
We all have been sitting on the history classes during our school times, reading all more or less interesting stories about ancient Egypt, dark middle ages and horrors of wars. This all has been possible because there has been notes, books, poems, letters left to us to read, to learn, to study.
But what happens today? Something happens, it is posted to Twitter or as Facebook status. Our thoughts are not anymore in the corners of book pages but posted as notes on Facebook or to blog. Everything is more and more just abstract information somewhere and something concrete just doesn't exists anymore. When was last time you have been writing real letter to anyone? Instead of email? Thought so...
Everything is fine as long everything works nicely. But what happens when something closes, goes to bankrupt, huge mistake in administration? Geocities was popular place to put personal webpages and I remember during my school finding there a lots of fan pages from television series and about everything. But last October it was closed down and the result - all pages are gone, disappeared. When someones leaves Facebook, it is nice and a good thing that all content that this person has been uploaded to Facebook is removed as well, but what it really means is that that part of history vanishes. As like that has never happened. All notes and thoughts about events, all photos from anything, all thoughts that has been putted as status, it is all gone. What is left to future generations to study is just nothing.
There is some cultures in the history that we know absolutely nothing, we know that they have existed but who they were, what they did, why they disappeared, nothing. Nothing at all, because they left nothing behind. And what is going to happen to us – same thing, there is not going to be a lot of anything to remember, no photos, no thoughts, no ideas... Modern world can have some downsides also...
Old railway
I like Tampere that in the area that currently holds small industrial and stores you can find old rails. It is always a great time to cycle there and think when was the last time there actually went a train. A quite a while I think because tracks was all rusty and in those place where rails crosses a street, no cars slowed down at all. And today I noticed sad thing, they were removing tracks from streets so no trains at all anymore. It looked like they are still going to keep rails elsewhere, but it is still only a matter of time until they are removed also, i think.
