User blog comment:Nnn6nnn/Where Will Googology Go?/@comment-29065906-20180104192803/@comment-30754445-20180104202619

I actually think that once the original hype is over, people would slowly start realizing what a gem googology is.

Sure, it will never be as popular as the latest reality TV show, but there will come a day where every educated person would have at least a cursory knoweldge of the realm of large numbers.

Just like today every educated person knows how to use scientific notation. Not many know what a "tridecillion" is, but nearly all of them know what "1042" means. And in the future, while people may not be familiar with names like "giggol" or "tetheracross", most will have at least an inkling of familiarity with the kind of functions that are required to build such numbers (double-arrows and zeta-0 recursion).

(I doubt many people will understand precisely how to work with ordinals like zeta-0, but they would have a general idea of how it is done)