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From the I-must-remember-to-start-a-major-war-and-mass-genocide dept.
Here's an interesting thought: who will be remembered 1000 years from now?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171220-how-to-be-remembered-in-1000-years/
I'd say Adolf Hitler, for one. But not Donald Trump or Hillary.
Churchill (Adolf's arch enemy)? Maybe by the British, but.....
Elon Musk?
Carrot Top?
Kim Kardashian for frell's sake???
Who will be remembered 1000 years from now
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No self-made man ever did such a good job that some woman didn't
want to make some alterations.
-- Kim Hubbard
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday December 21 2017, @04:43PM (1 child)
Mr. Linux Torvalds.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 22 2017, @02:16PM
as the author of git.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @05:44PM
Mark Fuckerberg invented the internet.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:37PM (1 child)
Donald J. Trump is the most famous person ever! Even Fake News BBC says I'll be famous for a THOUSAND YEARS! Because I've brought us together. Many people are saying I'm a voice for unity and calm! ONE TEAM, ONE PEOPLE, ONE FAMILY. Even the blacks. Believe me, I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.
I won the presidency overwhelmingly. Because I was the only STAR candidate. I watched the Dem debate on TV. And I said "Sorry, there is no STAR on the stage tonight!"
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me, consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected. When you're a star, you can do ANYTHING. It's terrific.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:58PM
Touch my pussah!
She will purr fo' you.
No, pussah! My pot-pie!
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:38PM (3 children)
Easily as noteworthy as Archimedes.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday December 21 2017, @06:41PM (2 children)
Oh and Bill Shatner. Trek and also Bond lore are already halfway to surviving for a century. Much longer than that and they'll surely become legends.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 21 2017, @07:12PM (1 child)
JJ Abrams is bigger than Shakespeare. In a thousand years the post-scarcity Federation will exist in real life and the Jedi will be its state religion for real.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by acid andy on Thursday December 21 2017, @08:42PM
I don't really count JJverse as real Trek. I gave the first movie a chance but there's so little of Roddenberry's vision left in it and it's obvious they'll do anything they can to broaden the appeal as much as possible. It's the fans that will keep the spirit of Trek alive. It's a shame CBS have stopped Axanar being a full length movie. It was going to be awesome.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(Score: 2) by rcamera on Thursday December 21 2017, @07:39PM
David Koresh, Jim Jones, Charles Manson, or Do. One of those guys will be seen as "the savior" at some point in the future. We're about due for our bimillennial big-whig.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Thursday December 21 2017, @07:49PM (2 children)
Bit of a catch 22 on Trump.
Starting a shooting war with North Korea would be pretty memorable. However, there's a good change that no one would be around to remember it afterward.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:38PM (1 child)
Can you flag yourself for a rewrite to avoid posting (paraphrased) "it will be memorable but no one one will remember it" or were you written that way to make you seem more American? It's no big deal if you aren't able to and most likely you can't. I doubt there's any human involvement when you reply either so I guess we're stuck with you as you are.
But if anything relevant with human level cognitive abilities reads this then please send along a thank you for the recent excellent "7000 degrees heat resistant anthrax" joke :) I won't spoil it by explaining it but a lot of people got into the holiday spirit of festiveness over the silliness in that one.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday December 22 2017, @01:01AM
Sorry, my (robot??) brain does not compute.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:19PM
Easy as that.
Human culture looks like it is in effect logarithmic. If that is correct then the rate of change during the next thousand years (including setbacks) could easily make "a thousand years back" at that point in time into "a million years back" now.
So their understanding of us will not be as cartoonish and fantastical as the general understanding of vikings (Norse pirates) or Mayans but as devoid of content as some ancient fossilized simians in Africa (simians by the old definition, not the new one: why the fuck do they mess with scientific nomenclature this way? Deliberate sabotage? It's the "scientific" equivalent oif making everything "Web 2.0" (and shit)).
So the question becomes "how many people from a million years back do you remember now?".
None.
If it's any consolation none of the people we "remember" now will be remembered either. Hardly anyone understands anything of what is "remembered" right now anyway and most of what is "understood" is made up (these sets do not overlap completely, only a little).
However it seems to be a certainty that some people will get murderous when for example claims of Aldri of Nas rising to the heavens is mocked and others will point out that "archeolinguists" have found that the name literally means "Never" in some dead ancient language :P
Progress? LOL (wait until you get older and you'll see).
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 22 2017, @05:45AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 22 2017, @07:23AM
Napoleon, Hitler, Columbus, Luther, Newton, Einstein, Darwin?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 22 2017, @12:42PM (4 children)
The Greek guy who destroyed the temple of Artemis just to be remembered.
I forgot his name.
And Barbra Streisand!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 22 2017, @03:53PM (3 children)
Herostratos
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Friday December 22 2017, @08:36PM (2 children)
Yeah, you don't what to be that Greek guy! But a bit early?
https://www.ancient.eu/article/128/the-temple-of-artemis-at-ephesus-the-un-greek-temp/ [ancient.eu]
In the Thousand Year range, surely everyone can recall Canute? King of Denmark, England and Norway? The Dane to whom the Danegeld must be paid? Son of Sweyn Forkbeard? Great guy!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 23 2017, @08:04PM
Damn millennials, always trying to get attention.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday December 24 2017, @04:58PM
If we can remember Aristophanes, then I wanna include Lenny Bruce and Richard Prior, and Johnny Carson, and Howard Stern?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 22 2017, @11:13PM (1 child)
Ray Kurzweil
Aubrey de Grey
Ben Goe-who?
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday December 23 2017, @03:39AM
Whoowill Wheeeaton!, everyone's arch enemy!!!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 24 2017, @01:54PM (1 child)
Started the idea of building a 10,000 year clock. If anyone remembers it in 1000 years, then it's probably good to go for the next 9000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now [wikipedia.org]
But since Bezos is funding it, he'll probably try to steal the limelight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 24 2017, @04:08PM
Bezos will kill Musky in hand to hand combat on Mars, impregnate Musky's harem, and use the resulting soldiers to attacc Earth. Once he has conquered the blue planet he will rewrite the history books and become the millennium man.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday December 24 2017, @05:02PM (1 child)
None of our recorded media will last that long. Find a CD or tape with the durability of papyrus and clay. On the other hand, some of those old 78s might last.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday December 24 2017, @05:22PM
The people that will be remembered because they were recorded on semi-durable media will be:
Sinatra, Hope, and Crosby
Glenn Miller
Goodman
Dorsey
Ella Fitzgerald
The Duke
Rosemary Clooney (they gotta etch her picture in glass!)
Elvis.. who?
These are people worth remembering.
For everybody else it will be a giant game of "telephone"
L. Ron Hubbard might just hold out.. if religion remains tax deductible.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..