The descent towards a digital cultureIn this century our culture is changing rapidly. In the last 30 years alone, our scientific understanding, technological achievements and fragmentation of values ​​have transformed faster than in just the previous 100 years. With the cultural shift in our expressed style, one must wonder what will be said about our culture another hundred years in the future. What is the one thing that has defined us as who we are? A section on our slow rise to socialism might be in order, or perhaps a chapter on our obsession with green. However, I would suggest that the first chapter of a 2113 humanities book about our culture be titled “The Descent into a Digital Culture.” Our culture is defined above all by the digital lifestyle that most of us live. Nowadays you can't leave your bedroom, much less your home, without a mini computer. It has become almost unfathomable to most of our numbers how we lived our lives before the iPhone; not to mention the Internet. Our culture and our lives revolve around the digital sphere. We live in a world where every answer to every question we would ever have, right or wrong, is just a tap away. This is also a place where the use of our vocal cords is used less than ever as we would rather text each other. Our descent into a digital culture has made us unlike any culture in the history of humanity, except perhaps ancient Rome. One of the side effects of this digital culture on our humanity is our new need for instant gratification. This trend has its roots in the dark ages of the early 1980s. This is when the World Wide Web (Internet) started to resemble what we know today. The Internet has given people the ability to access dozens of... middle of paper......culture is changing rapidly. It would be difficult to speculate what our culture will be like in the future. Over the next 100 years our scientific understanding, technological achievements and fragmentation of values ​​will advance further. When future generations look back at who we are as a people, how will they define us. Are we the beginning of the end of a powerful nation or one that brings a dying power back to life? The only thing their humanities text files should have is a section on how we started and lived in a digital culture. Our descent into a digital culture is one of the most important things that defines us as we are. As much as it may define us, it can still be seen as a descent similar to that of the fall of ancient Rome. On the other hand, it could end up like in “Pitt and the Pendulum”, saved at the last second.