I imagine archeologists digging up some ancient texts, written in a very sophisticated language,which eventually get translated and it turns out to be :" 101 social media tricks you can use to boost your business".
Yes, I'm fairly convinced that at some point some ancient civilization even more advanced than our own existed...then they invented social media and it all collapsed.
I get those Forbidden Planet feelings often.
Tell me about it.
That's actually the reality for a lot of Mesopotamian tablets, e.g "this cow was sold to the neighbor for 2 shekels of silver".
Bookkeeping of sorts is extremely old activity.I'm sure as soon as someone said ' you owe me 5 cows.No I don't,we settled last year' a need for bookkeeping was born.