Steve Kinney

The title isn’t a typo, I promise. I argue that there is an unsung profession that is going to make a huge comeback in the next few decades: historians – and it has everything to do with the present. With the rise of social media, people are documenting everything in sight through blogs, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter. People are documenting everything and dying to publicize it. The sheer mass of primary source accounts of the present with present an arduous task for the historians of the future (can I coin that?) and it will take a lot of them to sort everything out. People have always kept journals, but this is the first time in history that everyone has been so intent on making their every thought and observation public.

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