Memory loss

The Long News: stories that might still matter fifty, or a hundred, or ten thousand years from now.

Today, humans speak to each other in nearly 7,000 languages; it's estimated that 90% of those languages will be gone by 02050, displaced by English, Spanish, or Chinese. Meanwhile, there's a broader question about how well we're preserving  the rest of the world's cultural heritage. But while we may be losing our collective memories, the thoughts of individuals are more and more likely to...