500 hundred years from now...

[My Wife Hates CIV]

With all the digital history... what will those alive think of us?

[Aeson]

They'll look at us like we look at slavers. 6 billion people living on $12/day or less, genocides, wars, coups, puppet dictators, so a cult of demonic pedophiles can have bigger yachts.

They'll look at us in horror for how we treat animals and the environment. We are specieists commiting planetwide ecocide.

They'll look at us as thieves who stole from our own children. There's ~$300 trillion in debt. At ~5% that comes to ~$15 quadrillion in the lifespan of a newborn.

[Lorizael]

Without proper metadata and documentation, nothing at all.

[N35t0r]

Given our current trajectory, anyone still alive will be more worried about getting enough food to last the winter and/or fend off the raiders.

[BeBMan]

Maybe in 500 yrs the Zombie Inquisition will hunt down folks who still can utter something intelligible, use a coffee maker or a swiss army knife for witchcraft ... and for dinner of course

[Dauphin]

With all the digital history... what will those alive think of us?

Swipe left on their feed.

[Broken_Erika]

In 500 years, the world will be ruled by the Sea Otters

[The Mad Monk]

They will think that all the wire is good for tying stuff up, but the disks are useless for anything, except maybe shingles.

[ricketyclik]

Disks are good for keeping birds off your crops.

[Geronimo]

They'll look at us like we look at slavers. 6 billion people living on $12/day or less, genocides, wars, coups, puppet dictators, so a cult of demonic pedophiles can have bigger yachts.

They'll look at us in horror for how we treat animals and the environment. We are specieists commiting planetwide ecocide.

They'll look at us as thieves who stole from our own children. There's ~$300 trillion in debt. At ~5% that comes to ~$15 quadrillion in the lifespan of a newborn.

you do realize that in 500 years they would be just as likely to lump us in with the previous 10,000 years or so of civilization. None of the vices you mention were less obvious in any of that time frame really apart from ecocide where some hunter gatherer societies managed as a result of the hardships of prior experience led to various largely sustainable rules that they lived by To the best of my knowledge all of the civilizations to date failed in that regard, usually doing about as much damage as they could without going out of their way to cause it. Every generation seems to think that ubiquitous outrageous ethical lapses really started on their watch which is almost as funny as it is tragic.