Who will be remembered 1000 years from now

Riddle101

When we look back on history we still remember historical figures who died hundreds, if not thousands of years ago. We still remember leaders like Alexander The Great, Julius Caesar, Attila The Hun, Genghis Khan. We remember philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, and musicians like Beethoven and Motzart. There are plenty of other historical figures I could name but I'll leave it at that.

It's hard to say what the world with be like a thousand years from now(assuming it isn't destroyed). But I wonder what history books will say about people of today. Who has made a significant enough of an impact that their legacy will live on for thousands of years.

I guess the first name that pop into my mind, is Tim Berners Lee for inventing the World Wide Web. Of course who knows what they'll have 1000 years later, they'll probably consider the World Wide Web primitive and outdated by then.

robarmstrong

Your one that told everyone not to make unneccessary journeys I reckon.

Outlaw Pete

That little boy from the Charlie Bit Me video.

melekalikimaka

Conor McGregor


<grabs popcorn>

Captain Chaos

Donald Trump

Allinall

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Donald Trump

Who?

Winterlong

Miley from Glenroe.

Boom_Bap

Facekicker

PTH2009

Obama, Putin, the guy in Korea will be remembered

A Little Pony

Donald Trump, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Stonewall Jackson, George Washington, Nigel Farage

It will be people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao.

Me.

Effects

PTH2009 wrote: »

The guy in Korea will be remembered

Which one, there's a few of them.

9or10

George Hook - he'll probably still be broadcasting

Badly Drunk Boy

Francisco Rodriguez, Paddy Murphy, and John Taylor.

Fleawuss

Darwin, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Watson, Turing, Mohammed, and Chinese scientists yet to be born.

Cortina_MK_IV

PTH2009 wrote: »

Obama, Putin, the guy in Korea will be remembered

Badly Drunk Boy

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Francisco Rodriguez, Paddy Murphy, and John Taylor.

They met will working together in London and have remained friends ever since!

kfallon

Ray Houghton will still be remembered here!

Wanderer2010

Rosemary West.

enfant terrible

Madonna & Michael Jackson

jacksie66

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diomed

Gary Kildall, Federico Tesio, Alfred Nobel, Martin Luther-King.

Skylinehead

A Little Pony wrote: »

Donald Trump, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Stonewall Jackson, George Washington, Nigel Farage

I'd say 90% of people on the street don't know who Stonewall Jackson is now, let alone in a thousand years. Likewise Adams. As for Farage, tis but a pimple on history. Trump....remains to be seen. Lets hope Putin doesn't make fun of his hair.

Cazale

Ronnie Corbett. Four Candles is a classic.

RobertKK

Neil Armstrong and whoever is the first human to step onto Mars..

Tsipras

Muhammad Ali

Jayop

RobertKK wrote: »

Neil Armstrong and whoever is the first human to step onto Mars..

Aye, Armstrong and Hitler are the only two from the 20th century that are sure to be remembered in 1000 years time.

yermanoffthetv

Trent A character whose tale will be told aeons from now. Truly the greatest story ever told.

Skylinehead

Jayop wrote: »

Aye, Armstrong and Hitler are the only two from the 20th century that are sure to be remembered in 1000 years time.

Yuri Gagarin too, first in space is as significant as first on the Moon.

Wright brothers maybe, and Einstein.

ZeroThreat

Marty Morrissey

Cortina_MK_IV

William Shakespeare.

Maximus Alexander

Einstein, Armstrong and Hitler would be the only ones from that last century that I'd feel fairly certain about.

If SpaceX ends up putting people on Mars, then Elon Musk and whoever steps off the ship first probably, but that's a pretty long shot at this point.

From the art side of things, I haven't a clue. Have we had a Shakespeare or Mozart equivalent in any of the 'new' media? I don't think so.

BrokenArrows

Jayop wrote: »

Aye, Armstrong and Hitler are the only two from the 20th century that are sure to be remembered in 1000 years time.

Chances are they there will be another war between now and 3016 where the 70 million who died in WW2 will look like a minor scuffle.

We will probably be populating other planets by then and an interstellar war will occur when the death toll will reach the billions.

Maximus Alexander

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Chances are they there will be another war between now and 3016 where the 70 million who died in WW2 will look like a minor scuffle.

We will probably be populating other planets by then and an interstellar war will occur when the death toll will reach the billions.

Nevertheless, we still remember Genghis Khan despite the two World Wars having happened.

Dubh Geannain

The new world lightweight of the championship

Jayop

Skylinehead wrote: »

Yuri Gagarin too, first in space is as significant as first on the Moon.

Wright brothers maybe, and Einstein.

Yeah good shouts, especially Einstein. Even though despite having read about his work on numerous occasions I still don't have a balls notion what he was talking about it's clearly been hugely significant.

Grayson

Unless they start a big war current politicians won't be remembered in 1000 years. It's possible none of our countries will exist then.

It may be possible that if climate change works out really bad then the most powerful deniers will be remembered as the causes.

Peter Higgs (as in the Higgs boson) will be remembered. As will any other scientists that make big discoveries.

BrokenArrows

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Nevertheless, we still remember Genghis Khan despite the two World Wars having happened.

Ya but Khan killed about the same amount of people as in WW2 and it was 10% of the world population at the same. So it is still seen as insane.

RoyalMarine

Adolf Hitler and Stephen Hawking.

SafeSurfer

Grayson wrote: »

Unless they start a big war current politicians won't be remembered in 1000 years. It's possible none of our countries will exist then.

It may be possible that if climate change works out really bad then the most powerful deniers will be remembered as the causes.

Peter Higgs (as in the Higgs boson) will be remembered. As will any other scientists that make big discoveries.

The majority of scientists who have made major discoveries are completely unknown today and will be but footnotes in academic texts in a thousand years time. Ask the average person on the street to name 3 Nobel prize winning scientists and few would get past Einstein.

Jayop

SafeSurfer wrote: »

The majority of scientists who have made major discoveries are completely unknown today and will be but footnotes in academic texts in a thousand years time. Ask the average person on the street to name 3 Nobel prize winning scientists and few would get past Einstein.

I'm sure most people could name loads of important scientists.

Einstein
Darwin
Hawking
Curie
newton
Bell
Tesla
Eddison
Hubble

SafeSurfer

Jayop wrote: »

SafeSurfer wrote: »

The majority of scientists who have made major discoveries are completely unknown today and will be but footnotes in academic texts in a thousand years time. Ask the average person on the street to name 3 Nobel prize winning scientists and few would get past Einstein.

I'm sure most people could name loads of important scientists.

Einstein
Darwin
Hawking
Curie
newton
Bell
Tesla
Eddison
Hubble

I don't share your optimism. Ask a friend to name 3 Nobel prize winning scientists and see how many they can name.

ScumLord

Hitlers the only person I can think off that has a level of infamy and infrastructure left behind to become enshrined in history. Parts of the atlantic wall will probably be around for centuries as a reminder.

I'd say even the likes of Ali might slip into obscurity for all but sporting historians.

Armstrong also has infrastructure like the launching pads to keep his name alive long into the future.

Winterlong

If you have a look at famous people from the 11th century there are not many of them that most irish people would recognise.
A few popes and english kings. William the conqueror is the most notable.
Brian Boru.
Edward the confessor
Macbeth.

So I reckon in 1000 years time Hitler and Queen Elizabeth will be the most remembered.

ScumLord

Winterlong wrote: »

So I reckon in 1000 years time Hitler and Queen Elizabeth will be the most remembered.

Watching that netflix drama the crown about the early years of Queen Elizabeth really highlighted how unique a monarch she is. Seeing her welcomed to the role by Winston Churchill was a pretty epic moment, it really was the start of a new era. But she hasn't really done much to be remembered, it's a feature of the role of monarch these days, she basically had to give up her identity and take on the identity of the monarch. Her role has been very passive (as it should be) and she was there for some historic moments but, other than being there for a decline I don't really see what she did that will go down in history.

py2006

Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Fry
Stephen King

It's worth considering how quickly figures fade into obscurity once a generation or two has passed. How many people for instance could tell you what Richard Cobden was famous and lauded in his day for? (Agitating for repeal of the Corn Laws, leading to cheaper bread in Britain.) In the mid-late 1800s people looked back at the days of their Great War (Napoleonic/Peninsular wars) and would have been familiar with the details of it in a way which few people nowadays are. Nowadays most people could name Napoleon, The Duke of Wellington and maybe Admiral Nelson in relation to that time but would not have a great knowledge of the wars or what anybody did, despite the fact that the people who lived a while afterwards considered that time to be a period of immense historical importance. So it is hard/impossible to predict just how future generations will view world war 2/hitler although it does seem realistic that he will be one person who will remain remembered in 1000 years.

AndyBoBandy

Ryan Tubridy
Eamonn Dunphy
The younger of the O'Donoghue brothers
Sharon Ní Bfeolain
Harry Redknapp
Terry Christian
Yasser Arafat
Abs from 5ive

feargale

Tsipras wrote: »

Muhammad Ali

Oh FFS. How many athletes can you name from the 19th century, the 18th century, or any previous century?

pedigree 6

Hitler
Stalin
Putin
Khan
Einstein
Trump

People prefer and remember single names better.
Say any of the above and people might not know what their first names were but they will have a general idea who that person was and what they did.