As I was posting earlier, I saw one of my older posts (from 2009) was listed among the popular posts. I get it that with a small number of hits, weird things can pop up. But I went back to see what that post was about, and I found this modest prediction.

In any case, in the big picture, 20 years down the line, one of three things will happen: most of the humanistic disciplines around today will be gone; most of the current humanities will have morphed into digital versions of themselves; or we will have reverted to print technologies and the humanities will remain largely unchanged. I wouldn’t bet on the last one. What we do in the next decade might have an impact on which of the first two possibilities comes about. I suppose that is where this collection lies.

That would be five years from now. Still, assuming that the apocalypse doesn’t come before the end of the decade, I’ll stand by this.