In the summer of 2024, I spent a day at a large living museum that has begun opening a 1950’s section. It was brilliant to see, but it made me contemplate what a living museum would look like when they open a 2010’s area.
I think these museums will find it hard to display much from 2010’s-20’s. This is for several reasons.
Computers would be dead empty boxes, batteries of technology long since failed. Photographs, they would only exist if the storage media hasn’t failed, no letters, everything is digital.
How will archival material be safeguarded and accessed in the future? How will historians work? Or will humanity look back and one day just see a gap, a digital dark age. Where the things that make us human, love, friendships, family, the things we enjoy are lost to those that may choose to research us.
Major History 
Scary thoughts for the future. How many people have dead-tech draws, a dumping ground for cables no longer needed or old bits of tech that are now obsolete.
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Interesting thoughts, though it may be worth noting that there is a museum dedicated to mobile phones, which at present is totally mobile and is linked to science and technology.
I think there may be many others out there that are thinking along the same lines and collecting various objects and sources of information.
There are still many people who still prefer the ‘old’ ways of recording and hording bits from our present past.
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I think my initial thought was any form of digital would be susceptible to storage issues. I am guilty of it myself, last photograph I had printed was for a frame.
I was questioning the dependency on technology not to become obsolete, because if it does. What will we be left with.
But I am glad that the technology units themselves are being safeguarded for the future.
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