Comment Re:History (Score 1) 182
What trace will we leave behind now that everything has gone digital?
What makes you think that everything has gone digital? We still make machines, build buildings, carve up the landscape. Those are going to last. The "plastic layer" in the rocks is metaphorical, but we as sure as hell are going to leave a major geochemical mark. And a shorter-live radiological trace. We've started a major climate change which shows every sign of being as significant as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which we've understood for a bit more than a decade now, but we've recognised for more like one and a half centuries.
Our civilisation will remain in the archaeological record, don't you worry. Your twitter feed may be gone, but that is unlikely to make it to the next decade, even without the untimely death of yourself or the civilisation that we live in.