On a recent trip to the London Science Museum, I made a pilgrimage to view the first prototype of the Clock of the Long Now. It sits in a quiet corner of the first floor hall where other items of the 20th Century gather dust.
It was strange to see items from my life -- audio cassettes, a Sinclair ZX81, black & white TVs -- arrayed in sections and occasionally ogled at by passers by.
As our lives accelerate further, how much more work-a-day ephemera will appear as history only after a few years?
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