It doesn’t matter anymore, it’s written in cursive!
Sadly, you might be on to something. My biggest fear is that here we are 800 years later, living in what appears to be a constitutional republic, led by a few hundred "representatives."
What happens in the next few decades when our schools stop teaching the foundational elements of our society? What happens when kids no longer read anything older than 20th century literature? What happens when the parts of society who now espouse ideas such as, "Jesus Christ was alive SO long ago, he can't POSSIBLY be relevant anymore" or "the First Amendment only guaranteed freedom to make newspapers, not freedom on the Internet?"
We're circling the drain folks, and without a colossal shift in the way society functions, we're going to wind up a dogear in the history books.