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Originally Posted by The Philpott
I am thinking that an adventurer-collector visiting from year 2080 would target items that are already 'old' in 2019.
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Not what I'd expect: isn't anything old (if we're thinking at all similarly of what "old" means here) that's survived until 2019 very likely to make it to 2080 anyway, assuming nothing utterly calamitous happens to the planet or to its specific location in the meantime?
Pre-war TVs, say, or round Ekcos, or the first Anita calculators - the vast majority of each of these has been destroyed by now, but, regional or global disaster aside, I would expect more than half of the numbers existing in 2019 to be still knocking around sixty years hence. It's anyone's guess whether demand for them will be more or less than it is now.
Paul