Disaster Index: 3.1 Entry: Historical Dependency, Pedagogical Phase Cause: Scotland's 1998 World Cup campaign being converted into quiz content in the week before the 2026 tournament opens. Category: Historical Evidence: A national broadcaster has published a quiz testing familiarity with the Scotland squad that faced Brazil twenty-eight years ago. The match ended 2–1 to Brazil. Scotland scored first. This information is now considered educational. Historical precedent: France 1998 is the last documented Scotland fixture at a World Cup. It has had twenty-eight years to become mythology. The conversion is complete. Immediate outlook: The 1998 squad will be named correctly by more people this week than can name the current one. The Index notes this without alarm. It is simply the condition of returning from a long absence.