How will The Future remember us?

Speculation time!

In the year 2014 (or whatever year you're posting from), you landed yourself in a cryo-tube a la Futurama. Sorry about that, by the way.

You spend the next X Years (50, 100, 150, 250, 500, etc.) in said cryo-tube, cut off from the world. When you pop out, you find the world has changed drastically.

Question time! What is The Future like? How does The Future look back at us today? How will The Future react to you, a person from their past?

My thoughts:

• People will have a hard time understanding your antiquated English, or whatever language you speak. It's harder for them to understand you the farther out you go.
• People won't get most of your pop culture references, and will only recognize a few releases from each year / decade / century / what-have-you.
• Most people will have forgotten major events in the news (9/11, The War On Terror, the crisis in Syria, North Korea...) to the point that, when kids study it in school (or whatever system), they say "Why does this matter?"
• You will have a hard time navigating newer technology.

A quick note: I'm not looking for speculation on technology. If I wanted that, I'd read a sci-fi book. I'm looking for how society will interact, and how The Future will view today's events.

For transparency: I started a similar thread a while back in World Building, but it wasn't the thoughtful discussion I was looking for.

Have at it!

edited 21st Jan '14 6:35:21 PM by AwSamWeston

As my one rule for how I want to die is, "visible from space," I imagine the future would have some harsh words for me.

But screw them. What has the future EVER done for me?

Can you please give me advanced warning on where/when as I have no desire to be in the same Hemisphere at the time.

Sounds like a pretty fair assessment to me, though English won't have changed too much - ours has only changed a small amount since the time of Shakespeare.

edited 21st Jan '14 8:28:26 PM by Wolf1066

He could always get launched in a rocket.

and if there's no huge disaster, audio recording would probably slow linguistic shift down a bit.

edited 21st Jan '14 8:30:45 PM by Zendervai

The largest changes are likely to be societal and although there will be some impact on the language due to that, I'm fairly certain it wouldn't take much talking around the subject to get mutual understanding.

After all, Shakespeare's not that incomprehensible to us.

I dunno. Talk to any High School-aged kid today who's read Romeo And Juliet, and they'll be like "Wha...? The hell are they saying?"

Actually, there might be evidence that this has reverted some of the cross-Atlantic linguistic drift. And if there isn't any evidence, I'd still bet there has been some assimilation and stuff.

edited 21st Jan '14 10:24:37 PM by AwSamWeston