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Due to the median age in modern society being at or around mid-30's, and assuming that you must be at least around age 5 or 6 to remember a significant event, that means there are less and less people who remember actually being alive during that time (seeing it on the news, hearing people talk about, actually seeing it for yourself, etc.) This will increase in the coming decades to where most people won't remember personally experiencing the times when major events happened.
They'll just be things that happened a long time ago.
Chances are, this may lead to them being reference much more in popular culture, like how we use events like the Tunguska event and Second World War, as major catalysts or settings for storytelling. A lot can happen in thirty years.
Please do the people alive today a favor and don't forget what's happened in your lifetime. Let the people in the future know as well.
If you want to see more, here's a chart from Xkcd: xkcd.com/1093/

Description

Due to the median age in modern society being at or around mid-30's, and assuming that you must be at least around age 5 or 6 to remember a significant event, that means there are less and less people who remember actually being alive during that time (seeing it on the news, hearing people talk about, actually seeing it for yourself, etc.) This will increase in the coming decades to where most people won't remember personally experiencing the times when major events happened.
They'll just be things that happened a long time ago.
Chances are, this may lead to them being reference much more in popular culture, like how we use events like the Tunguska event and Second World War, as major catalysts or settings for storytelling. A lot can happen in thirty years.
Please do the people alive today a favor and don't forget what's happened in your lifetime. Let the people in the future know as well.
If you want to see more, here's a chart from Xkcd: xkcd.com/1093/