Wir leben in der interessantesten Zeit des Lebens

We are living at the perfect inflection of furthest time back and recording clarity that future generations will ever be able to look back on.

This post argues that we may be living at the highest-resolution point in human history, where everyday life is being recorded, archived, and preserved at a scale no prior civilization achieved. Looking forward, the question is less about whether this data survives and more about how it is interpreted, curated, and valued by future generations. Will historians see clarity, or noise? Will AI become the primary lens through which our era is understood? And do individuals have a responsibility to shape their own historical record rather than letting platforms and algorithms do it for them? I’m interested in how this unprecedented level of preservation might change culture, memory, accountability, and what it even means to “be remembered” in the centuries ahead.