I went to a public conversation with photographer Edward Burtynsky sponsored by Stewart Brand's Long Now 10,000 year clock foundation.
Most of the talk concerned how to create photographic prints that would last 10,000 years. Burtnysky's solution is a method called carbon transfer made with ground stone.
Then Burtynsky showed three examples of color slides of the kind of curating he was thinking about for our current era. Two by Vid Ingelvics and Marcus Schubert and one of his own.
This three person show was like seeing Soviet Socialist Realism in 1953 under Stalin. It was pure ideological vacuousness. But this is 2008 and the vacuous ideology is an anti-commerce synthesis of Ludditism, Marxism and Eco-Armaggedonism. Ingelvics showed ordinary household items (stoves, dish washing soap) with no brand names, just boring boxes. At a time when there are 40,000 esthetic brand name product lines and one interesting Japanese chain with No Brand, he ignores the real world of commerce. Schubert is most concerned about imperialism and the terrible fact that there are rich and poor people on the same planet. Burtynsky is mainly concerned that we are on the brink of destroying the natural world and the Chinese are using slaves to create cheap products.
It was is an anti-commerce synthesis of Ludditism, Marxism and Eco-Armaggedonism.
Looking at the world from the next century, not 10,000 years, I would say that in the second great world conquest of the Vikings (the 1st was in 900 CE about trade) from 1800 forward, based on industrial commerce, a small band of anti-commerce ideologs survived into the 21st Century and held a very transitory believe in global warming and other Armageddon religious views that didn't survive two decades.
The Luddites also worshiped the still photograph at a time when moving images were replacing them.