The Permanent Web
September 2016
[Update: a few days after I published this, Vector.im rebranded as Riot.im. It's the same project, just a new name...]
In 5,000 years, will anybody be able to read (or even access) things we put online today? Here at the dawn of the information age, we are creating the archetypes that have big implications, possibly for thousands of years. There's a bunch of recent science fiction stories that imagine various futures, written with the perspective of today's web, extrapolating where things might go as humanity evolves.