In the past art pieces were often commissioned from nobles who wanted to show their power or to be recognized.
Paintings, sculptures and buildings were almost a document, the proof of one's life and existence.
When the photograph has been invented it has then replaced the original purpose of portraits, and have now become very affordable and of common use.
Nowadays things are becoming more and more digital, even photographs are hardly printed anymore.
This is a bit of an exaggeration, but I've been thinking: if we keep relying on the Internet for everything,
and for any reason the Internet and technology we know today were to disappear, it means we will lose all of the information contained in them.
I wonder if there will be some sort of "duality" of culture: the digital one and the physical one.
Maybe this is stupid and I'm thinking too much about it, but these thoughts make me curious and I keep asking myself questions...
How will the humans of, say, 2300 perceive our age? In which way will we leave our heritage?
Will we be forgotten, at least in the digital space?
I wonder if in that future age, when I will be long dead and decomposed, this site will still be online
or at least accessible to everyone. If languages will have changed someone might try to decipher this,
maybe mistaking something I wrote for something else entirely, and get the wrong impression of who I am!
That thought scares me a bit but, at least unless the afterlife exists, I will never know what happens after I die,
so all of this is just up to my imagination.