Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for September 11, 2021

First, you need to learn how to have kids.

You better check with Estella, Baldo. She if she’s okay with that.

Do you want to look cool, or intelligent?

Baldo, you’re assuming the internet as we know it will still exist at that point. Ancestry.com most likely won’t be around by then.

Optimist!

You may want to update your ‘cool’ photo every now and then. I’m embarrassed by some of the things I once wore.

Typical Baldo thinking.

I don’t have to worry about it. I am cool…

By then, that will probably be considered the look of a dweeb…..

more like a fool

He’s optimistic enough to think that some poor girl is going to Want to have his kids.

I never wanted kids. Poor little buggers might look like me.

We’re talking what, 80-100 years into the future?

Any digital files that exist today will probably be gone by then, either lost or too corrupted to open. Unless they’re constantly reloaded in to the new formats, but sooner or later it will become impossible to preserve them. I have computer files from the early 2000s that I can’t open any more. The programs that created them are gone and the new programs can’t read them.

That’s why it’s a shame that communications have now gone almost completely digital. We have the photos and letters from our ancestors, but future generations aren’t going to have anything that wasn’t saved on a hard copy. All of the emails and digital photos that exist today will be gone.