http://blog.longnow.org/2007/08/22/world-without-us-in-15000-years/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:16:08 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/08/22/world-without-us-in-15000-years/comment-page-1/#comment-2399 Nate Ribbens Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:32:00 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2007/08/22/world-without-us-in-15000-years/#comment-2399 This makes me wonder more about the past than our future. Whether or not it be Atlantis, it makes me wonder if there had been a civilization in our past that rivaled our own in structural and technological impact/achievement. The historic consensus of humanity's status beyond 4000 years has never sat well with me. We assume that we must have been more primitive out of the sheer disbelief that all we have done could be washed away in such a short time. This makes me wonder more about the past than our future. Whether or not it be Atlantis, it makes me wonder if there had been a civilization in our past that rivaled our own in structural and technological impact/achievement. The historic consensus of humanity’s status beyond 4000 years has never sat well with me. We assume that we must have been more primitive out of the sheer disbelief that all we have done could be washed away in such a short time.

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