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Who will be remembered 1000 years from now

Journal by Gaaark

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???

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  • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:19PM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 21 2017, @11:19PM (#613017) Journal

    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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