An under-appreciated feature of our present is how we record almost everything -- far more data than we can analyze. Future historians will be able to reconstruct and understand our time far better than we perceive and understand it right now.
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Somehow the idea that the future us will be so much smarter, they will know better than us what it meant to be us, feels like a smoker saying he can quit at any time.
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Isn’t this an anachronism? Ethics is contextual, future generations’ ethics will be different from ours.
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