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First we should look back and see what kind of people are remembered from 2000 years ago to get an idea of whom will be remembered 2000 years from now. Doing that, we find great leaders, great warriors, great thinkers, great creators, and not so great people that happened to catch the attention of the great creators.
William Shakespeare will be remembered. No one has ever or likely will ever have as much of an impact on storytelling. 2000 years from now, people will remember Hamlet just as well as we remember Achilles and Hector from the "Iliad".
Michelangelo Buonarroti will be remembered. No one in the next 2000 years will sculpt anything that eclipses the David or paint anything that eclipses the Sistine Chapel.
Should democracy survive, Thomas Jefferson will be remembered,
Ludwig van Beethoven will be remembered. As long as paper preserves his compositions or recordings survive, no one will diminish his contributions to music.
Charles Dickens will be remembered. His stories are timeless depictions of the human condition.
Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein will be remembered for their contributions to physics, unless future models completely discredit them, children 2000 years from now will be enthralled by what F=ma and e=mc^2 reveals.
Adolf Hitler will be remembered much in the way Vladimir the Impaler is remembered, today, for the horrific stories of the Holocaust. He will be a quasi-fictional character from children's tales, used to scare them into being good.
Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong will be remembered for their respective accomplishments of being the first humans to enter space and walk on the moon. Children whose families have lived on the moon for generations will learn about the men that made that possible.
That's 10, so a good place to stop. There will many others. I hope, 2000 years for now, people will still enjoy the music of the Beatles and the films of Charlie Chaplin.
William Shakespeare will be remembered. No one has ever or likely will ever have as much of an impact on storytelling. 2000 years from now, people will remember Hamlet just as well as we remember Achilles and Hector from the "Iliad".
Michelangelo Buonarroti will be remembered. No one in the next 2000 years will sculpt anything that eclipses the David or paint anything that eclipses the Sistine Chapel.
Should democracy survive, Thomas Jefferson will be remembered,
Ludwig van Beethoven will be remembered. As long as paper preserves his compositions or recordings survive, no one will diminish his contributions to music.
Charles Dickens will be remembered. His stories are timeless depictions of the human condition.
Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein will be remembered for their contributions to physics, unless future models completely discredit them, children 2000 years from now will be enthralled by what F=ma and e=mc^2 reveals.
Adolf Hitler will be remembered much in the way Vladimir the Impaler is remembered, today, for the horrific stories of the Holocaust. He will be a quasi-fictional character from children's tales, used to scare them into being good.
Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong will be remembered for their respective accomplishments of being the first humans to enter space and walk on the moon. Children whose families have lived on the moon for generations will learn about the men that made that possible.
That's 10, so a good place to stop. There will many others. I hope, 2000 years for now, people will still enjoy the music of the Beatles and the films of Charlie Chaplin.
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