Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by zardo 3754 days ago
Like historians? I also think they will exist in fifty years.
2 comments
sangnoir 3753 days ago
I think more like Verner Vinge's Programmer Archeologists[1], rather than Historians.

1. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4424

link
flashman 3753 days ago
Like digital archaeologists, is more what I'm imagining. Not interpreting the primary sources, discovering them.
link