# Are we now at the point where future archeologists/historians can't possibly misunderstand or not know what our current-day items, objects and events are?

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**Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-now-at-the-point-where-future-archeologists-historians-cant-possibly-misunderstand-or-not-know-what-our-current-day-items-objects-and-events-are/1021235/90 "2025-07-27T16:01:20Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> The 21st century may leave far fewer understandable artifacts and records to the 31st century than the 11th did to the 21st. Despite a vastly larger population and vastly more goods and records per capita

Yeah definitely. Digital records make papyrus records look positively durable in comparison

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