• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    With the sheer amount of data being gathered and kept for every person, in the far future a common school assignment could be being assigned some random nobody from our times and having to piece together their daily life by cross-referencing archived social media records.

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      I’ve had a class do this for women that lived in my city 100 years ago. We had them pick folks out of the voter rolls for the first general election women were allowed to vote in.

      Some of the papers got wicked detailed.