Archeology of the future is not only a complicated way of looking at our selves with the eyes of our successors, it is also a way to see our past or our present. If today archeological sites bring back to light objects that have been under the surface, tomorrow these studies will have different projects and methods. The research will be done in the deepness not of the earth but of the digital sounds that characterize our era. Digital production in the nearest future will be destined to prevail on natural production. Leaving space to new technologies and the decline of the materialistic production will change the life of individuals and their expressions will change to precise places and spaces. They will not contain the origin or its appurtenence but the content and the meaning of its expressions. Time in our culture is given by passages by variations by successions of ideas; it is underlined by differences of style of period of interpretation in the world and of life. Although today we don’t leave a sing, a trace; we type. Our every day life will turn into a continuos typing in the net, like in communications, in the service sector, in our studies and in production. The net will be the box in which everything flows, the funnel without material where temporal and geographical differences nullify themselves, the omnicomprehensive container that in once holds today, yesterday and tomorrow. The archeology of the future is an utopy, not because it is contradictory in its terms but because in our time through technology the future mixes with the present denying the illusion of a difference that for man is indispensable but that globalization does not permit. Musil wrote in the twenties : "If the realization of primordial dreams are considered to be able to fly with the birds and swim with the fish, dig huge tunnels in the heart of mountains, send messages at extraordinary speed, being able to see or hear what is invisible and far away...then the actual reasearch is not only science, but it is also magic..." But would the Austrian writer ever have thought of the effect of the progression of that magic which is the incessant and immutable continue of the present?

Mattia Torre