The Google Event Horizon

You know that it's all "in there"  - assuming that  it's been digitized by Google or it's available on-line for crawling. But you will not find it unless you already know exactly what you're looking for. That's unlikely if it's not a personal memory or something that you learned in history class. And history is soooo yesterday.

As what people discover becomes more and more influenced by what most people have already been able to discover through search engines, the event horizon (or maybe the fact horizon) gets closer and closer to the present.

An example. If you're millenial (hate that) you probably think that the use of cute abbreviations is owned by SMS, IM and Twitter. Let's channel through the  horizon with the help of Kent Engineers, who have compiled a list of early radio abbreviations:

http://www.kent-engineers.com/abbreviations.htm
http://www.kent-engineers.com/prosigns.htm
http://www.kent-engineers.com/qcode.htm

Of course Kent seems to be in the UK, where history is still acknowledged (though perhaps only as a fetish). In addition to coveting several of Kent's Morse keys, I'm thinking about how Morse code is, by itself, neither analog nor digital. It's temporal (the dashes are longer, the dots are shorter).

Maybe Google or someone can find a way of opening the event horizon. One possibility, an algorithm that can correlate recent events with older ones and present results in an historical context. That still weights things towards the now. But it would be a start.