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Who will be remembered 1000 years from now

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Thanks to the ease of duplicating data and the magic of forward error correction we should be able to remember all the important stuff for the foreseeable future. No more dark ages.

    If you want to backup wikipedia start here.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

    lots of commercial ventures will let you backup stuff for bleedin' ages
    http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161018-the-worlds-knowledge-is-being-buried-in-a-salt-mine

    Even 300,000,000 years storage might be possible.
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/data-saved-quartz-glass-might-last-300-million-years/

    there are various projects to ensure data can be read as well as stored
    Floppy disks came in a bizarre variety of formats even for physically compatible media. One format even has disk that rotate backwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Michael Jordan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Elon Musk? If he makes it to mars then he (and who ever is on that first trip) will probably have cities on Mars named after them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    The guy who WILL invent teleportation and warp speed in 100 years.

    Also Susan Boyle and Kim Khardashian


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I'd like to think that this guy will be remembered and people will still watch it and crack up laughing.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭AnthonyCny


    I think people will still be listening to the Beatles in 200 years time. Not sure about 1000 years though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    pedigree 6 wrote: »
    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.
    If Khan is remembered then surely Kirk will be too?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,560 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    In 1,000 years, my ancestors will know of the pr1ck bouncer that refused to let me & my friends in to the Red Box circa 1999 for Dave Clarke, despite all of us having a ticket.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    KingBrian2 wrote: »
    Who will be remembered 1000 years from now? Hmmmmm. Have to say Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins first men on the moon. Yuri Gagarin first man in space.
    Michael Collins didn't set foot on the moon.
    History is constantly being revised so maybe in 1000 years Wernher Von Braun or Larry Page and Sergey Brin if their artificial intelligence bet pays off. The theory being that the Google search engine and all its ancillary services, such as scanning the books of libraries, is just a means to teach an AI, the ultimate goal of Page and Brin. An AI that could self learn, improve itself and increase its intelligence exponentially.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,560 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    An AI that could self learn, improve itself and increase its intelligence exponentially.

    then create a Skynet defence system and wipe out all humans,

    so maybe in 1,000 years, we'll all be remembered.... by the Google AI overlord as it'll have all our search histories, as that'll be all thats left of us.
    Dammit, in 1,000 years, Googlord will know I watched a lot of porn!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


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

    Even Paul Atreides 20,000 years hence mentioned hitler ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    the man who finds the cure to cancer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Bin Laden, Bush, Merkel.

    Bin Laden for the start or the great war. Bush for making a strategically bad decision. Merkel for the surrender of Europe to the Islamists.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,487 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    Einstein
    Hitler
    Michael Jackson
    Muhammad Ali
    Nelson Mandela
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Pele (Could be Messi/Ronaldo after retiring)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    Obama bin Laden was a man who attacked America on September 11th. He flew on his plane the B52 and knocked down the great towers of York. He was defeated by The Trump who made America great again by starting the War of The Worlds. He brought the cleansing flames, the nuclear fire. He cleared the world as well of the Putin and the Yellow Peril. He drove the unbelievers back to the deserts and drowned them in oil and buried them in the ashes of their own cities.
    He was in turn replaced by our Lord Protector Pence when the Lord brought him to Valhalla... Pence Rules Us From Mountainview... his AI begets his AI for all eternity... we are blessed, we are one, we are free...

    Grade VI Assignment by Deloitre Tanner, Keflavik School, class of 3019


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 PoorAuldDivil


    Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, John Connors (The Great Emancipator), Queen Elizabeth, Neil Armstrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Kim Kardashian


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    they'll be nobody around 1000 years from now

    Donald will see to that :cool:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    ScumLord wrote: »
    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.

    She will for longevity, it will be several generations before a monarch reigns as long and by then, there may be no monarchy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Neil Armstrong and whoever is the first human to step onto Mars..

    The actual first man on the moon might be remembered too if it ever happens.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    the man who finds the cure to cancer
    Many types of cancer are already curable. For others there are vaccines.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    I think the bigger question is who will be remembering 1000 years from now.
    My guess is an advanced lifeform that is not the human we know today.
    And it will remember all recorded data without preference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    Tim Henman, the English tennis player.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Obama because he was the first black president. Apart from that, all the benevolent crazy 20th century dictators, Mao, Stalin, Hitler etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Einstein, Hawking, Crick & Watson, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, The Beatles and probably a few who will be a complete surprise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭Didas


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Obama because he was the first black president. Apart from that, all the benevolent crazy 20th century dictators, Mao, Stalin, Hitler etc.

    You think people in 1000 years time will care about race relations in one nation that will likely be long gone out existence by then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Obama because he was the first black president. Apart from that, all the benevolent crazy 20th century dictators, Mao, Stalin, Hitler etc.

    That's assuming the US is around then. Otherwise he's an obscure figure from 1000 years ago.

    The same goes for Stalin etc... In 1000 years there could have been worse dictators and worse wars. A lot worse. So they're just a small footnote in the history books.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    tonygun wrote: »
    You think people in 1000 years time will care about race relations in one nation that will likely be long gone out existence by then?

    Nearly everything that currently exists will be long gone out of existence by then. That's the point of the thread; remembering. A lot of us would know plenty of the key figures and rulers of ancient Rome, which is one nation that is long gone out of existence. The USA has had far too big a footprint on the globe for the last couple of centuries to be forgotten, whatever becomes of it.


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