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And I'm sure bronze casting seemed pretty important at the time that developed but hardly anyone thinks anything about it now save for some scientists. Our computers and internet seem pretty revolutionary now but when viewed from the future they'll probably just be another minor technological improvement.

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I'm sure there are many historians who would jump at the chance to go back in time and observe ancient bronze casting first-hand.

In fact, it seems like almost every period of human history has at least 1 historian who has devoted their life to studying it. So I think there would be at least some people in the future who would be interested in our present time period.

And, being historians, they would want to avoid making any history-altering changes, so if they do everything correctly, we'd never know they were here.

I have no doubt there would be some people very interested, I'm saying that most people probably won't give us a second thought.

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