There will probably be many new kinds of technology by 2028. One way people could be viewing digital videos is virtual reality. That technology already exists today, and could be improved a lot by then.
The destruction that resulted from war or siege including the purposeful burning of an enemy city’s fields.
The prehistoric era predates writing. Human progress included primitive tools and weapons, clothing, fire, cave art and burial of the dead. During the Old Stone Age, human beings were learning, but they were learning slowly. Then around 10,000 years ago progress began to speed up, with developments like agriculture, the domestication of animals, the creation of permanent villages and cities, etc. Writing began to appear around 5,000 years ago (around 3,000 BC) and that may be the beginning of what we call history, since we begin to know what people were thinking as well as what they were doing.