1. Opening Words


To the anonymous reader,

We, the humans in second decade of twenty first century, are writing this for you. You might be a hundred years ahead or two hundred from us. Why are we writing this otherwise mundane, trivial stuff? Because we are deprived of a clear account of the social knick knack of the common people a hundred years ago from us. What we read as history was made up of kings, wars, great folks and wonders in the world. But not of the common people, their lives, issues, pleasures and plights. We lived more than half of our life through such history until we realized that we had no connect with that.

That is precisely the reason we are writing this 'future' history for you. We are neither accomplished writers of our generation nor trying to undermine the historians of your time. The accomplished writers of our time write great about things that tickle their intellectual desires but not the 'as is' fact. The historians of your time would write history of our cultures, empires and leaders but not of our lives, families and people. Simply because they wouldn't have the authentic instruments to know common people. Hence we are writing this. Fortunately, we have evolved from age old paper writing to the digital content so that there is good hope that you find this writing intact after centuries.

So, qthe question is what is it that we want to convey here. We will write about everything right from our identity crisis to individual tastes and our social culture to political orders. Sine these are part of our daily lives for years, our contemporary readers may not find it an interesting read. But for you, who is centuries ahead, it will definitely be interesting and amusing. Finally I would like to close this prologue with a quote from some other anonymous:

Change is constant and everyone is made to change willingly or unwillingly, but unfortunately without leaving a trace of what was before the change.

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