Create a scenario. First you'd have to assume that any form of technology from our time was lost due to global warming, ice age, getting hit by a meteor etc. Then our descendants from thousands of years in the future saw fragments of our past. What conclusions do you think they would draw out?

They would probably conclude (from ruins etc) that we lived in a theocracy where religion was the major economic, social and political force...

...they'd probably be right.

They would come to the conclusion that there is no way we would be able to construct buildings like the Petrona Towers etc..., and conclude that there was alien intervention to assist us.

It would probably also be concluded that we were savages that in time killed each other off.... Actually that is pretty true.

What would really mess with them is finding our technology on the moon, and perhaps still in orbit. They undoubedly then conclude aliens watched us from a moon base and attacked in a battle that wiped everything pretty much off earth with no side coming out on top.

If one of our satellites were still in orbit and suddenly crashed to earth most would call it a UFO. Then the government comes in to retrieve the debris and when they find out we made them? I can imagine them running around like headless chickens and crying about why the technology was lost.

"How can you possibly criticize me for any conflict that comes to you?" Titor asked. "I watch every day what you're doing as a society. While you sit by and watch your Constitution being torn away from you, you willfully eat poisoned food, buy manufactured products no one needs and turn an uncaring eye away from millions of people suffering and dying all around you.

"Perhaps I should let you all in on a little secret. No one likes you in the future. This time period is looked at as being full of lazy, self-centered, civically ignorant sheep. Perhaps you should be less concerned about me and more concerned about that."

Theres your answer.

I think that is the best contribution from you that I have ever read. Really made me stop and think. Thanks

They would dig up an old comic book and think its a history book. They will start a religion over those comic books and their Holy Wars will consist of Marvel v.s. D.C. and fighting over who would win in a fight, The Hulk or Super-Man. They will think Aquaman was the king of Atlantis after digging up Plato's work. They will send satellites out into space to look for the remains of Krypton. They will live in constant fear of the next comming of Galactus.

In the future UM forums people will claim that they where just works of fiction while others will proclaim their faith in Super-man. Mel Gibson's descendants will make a movie called The Passion of Super-Man.

Instead of swearing on the Bible in court you will be swearing on The Amazing Spider-Man #1.
They will then dig up old DVDs of Superman Returns and X-Men: The Last Stand and say they are video evidence. After that people will come to the future UM and say that those movies where too blurry to be real.

But then someone will try to replicate a gamma bomb explosion and a radioactive spider bite and realize that they can't become The Hulk or Spider-man...because it was never possible. Then everyone will kill themselves because they realized how dumb they must look.

I hope to holy hell that the last remnants of our era is not a DVD of Battlefield Earth and a Nickelback CD.

Any left over "evidence" of our existence for a later generation will be so confusing. Humans are a complicated race, lol. That's why I sometimes think that we don't actually know anything about our anscestors. What if we find a painting on a wall, and assume it has a meaning... Why's it hafta have a meaning? Many people today right random things all over the place "just to do it". Can you imagine someone in the future trying to figure out what these "ancient drawings" meant, lol?

I think alot of their conclusions would be wrong. Unless they find a working DVD player with someone's home videos, lol. Or pictures, or something of the sort.

Just imagine what they'd think of us if they found some of the more embarassing aspects of the internet.

i actually read a science fiction story a long time ago about this. It was written in the 60's I believe. Maybe earlier. Far far in the future, humanity had suffered a collapse and was slowly declining. The last tribe of humans, now reduced to neolithic primitiveness made a pilgrimmage to a holy place to place the last remnants of humanity in a secure location for future people to find so humans wouldn't pass out of existence without some record. Later, some alien explorers come to this planet (which is now an iceball) and discover the cave with the last artifact of humanity. They study it and try to decipher what we must have been like.

The artifact? A Mickey Mouse cartoon.