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Name 20 things - texts, programmes, people, sounds, institutions, whatever - that would be informative of our contemporary diversity to a cultural historian in precisely EIGHTY YEARS TIME.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but, but, we've only got seventeen years left...

― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

David Bowie said we only had five years. Mind you that was in 1972.

Kellogs Winders. Pop Idol. Streets Origional Pirate Material. Channel 5's art programmes. Sugababes 'Freak Like Me'. Spooks. The Secret Life Of The Office.

― Pete, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Push And Run

― David, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And that's an order.

Sorry kids: 20 was much too big an ask. 10? 5?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Pinefox.

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Discovery, Eminem's "Kim", White Teeth, Laurent Cantet's Time Out, and because the future can't possibly be good enough to deserve all this, Gwen Stefani.

― B-Rad, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mojo magazine.

― Tim, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

2. the archives of yahoogroups

― angela, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The business pages of a major daily, Philippe Starck's vase/letter file (it goes for $7.99 at Target), an inventory sheet for a dollar store, a menu from Alain Ducasse, an issue of Fucking Heterosexual Maxim's Stuff, a microcassette filled with Britney Spears and NSync ringtones, a snapshot of Yahoo's 'Most Popular' page with its breasts and kittens, a digital camera filled with blurry pictures of young girls in bright lipstick and Dashboard Confessional t-shirts, remaindered copies of e-business books, a hacked TiVo, screenshots of 'popular' weblogs that are mainly popular because the people writing them wrote some sort of weblog-related program, a videocassette of TV ads for Prozac and Ambien and Zoloft, the issue of Harper's with Lewis Lapham's article about the singing Ashcroft, a GOING OUT OF BUSINESS sign.

― maura, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A copy of heat with the coverline "Posh Spice Waits At Airport"; Chanel Rouge Noir nail varnish; a screen grab from the Urban 75 message boards; a gleaming first minted Euro coin; Nike Air Max trainers.

― Anna, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the collected writing of Peter Hitchins and all the issues of heat magazine. that'll do the trick. and a few photos of Val Singleton.

― Alan T, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(mini mind-meld?)

― Alan T, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When you say "our" do you me us on ILE or the whole world?

― toraneko, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was about to say, surely the ILX archives. Worldwide commentary on everything! :-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't argue with that. But somehow I think HEAT is a good answer too.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"our contemporary diversity" --> I can't help thinking that in 80 years time (or 10 or 5) we'll be MORE diverse and ployglottish than we are now. All the examples I'm coming up with indicate the ways in which we don't know ourselves yet. Maybe I just need to think about it more.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I seriously midread the title as writing 2002, reading (berkshire) 2082.

― jel --, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What year do we tackle 'rithmetic?

― rosemary, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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