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by tivert 700 days ago
> Or maybe, by then, none of it will really matter very much, because the past will itself have been automated. Instead of historians, we’ll have ‘history machines’ based on algorithms and databanks: more facts on file, designed by survivors of the final bureaucratic assault on what was once fondly called ‘the humanities’.

Honestly, I can't imagine that a machine like that won't devolve into a Ministry of Truth.