My great grandfather - George McCauley

I have been doing some preparation over the last couple of days for a forthcoming project with a Year 7 group entitled "Tomorrow's World", in which the students are going to create news media from the perspective of the year 2050 looking back on events since 2010.

An obvious way to contemplate the future is by looking at the past, and at the predictions that previous generations made about what life in the 21st Century would be like. I'll post more links and ideas here soon, but for now, I'm simply going to share a very special video. I'm going to show it, perhaps a little self-indulgently, to the students. It's an Anderson family heirloom, and shows my great grandfather, George McCauley, competing (and winning) the World Wood Cutters Championship of 1911, in Eltham, New Zealand:

George McCauley, World Champion from Richard Anderson on Vimeo.

What would George make of life in 2010, I wonder? What would he make of me "blogging" his moment of fame onto a thing called the "Internet"?

Will anyone have digital memories of me in the year 2110 ...?