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		zardo on March 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TiltBrush by Google Like historians? I also think they will exist in fifty years.

sangnoir on March 3, 2016 | [–]

I think more like Verner Vinge's Programmer Archeologists[1], rather than Historians.

1. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4424

flashman on March 3, 2016 | [–]

Like digital archaeologists, is more what I'm imagining. Not interpreting the primary sources, discovering them.

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