Choose a cultural artifact from our contemporary world that you think will last for centuries. What cultural artifact from our world do you think people will study in the distant future? Imagine someone taking a Humanities or Cultural History course in some distant future. What from our time do you think will still be worth studying then? Why did you choose this artifact, and how does it represent today’s culture? Be specific, be detailed, and write well.
By “cultural artifact” I mean any created work of art, This could be literature (poem, novel, any book); music (a song or a particular album, for example); visual art (paintings, drawings, sculpture, electronic visual art); a work of architecture; a film; a television series; or something else that could be described as a “cultural artifact.” By “contemporary” I mean “created within your lifetime, the recent past, no longer than 50 years ago.”
