Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars
by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @01:47PM
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> Imagine that you were living in a time when all the great people that we learned about in the history classes were alive.
> Those were incredible times to be alive...
No such time existed. Its not like "the past" all happened at once, or even in one lifetime.
> How many great people, how many great writers, how many great singers and poets of the current times do you imagine students after fifty years will be learning?
Probably lots, many of which we're overlooking because of either excessive familiarity (in terms of art) or insufficient perspective to appreciate impact (in terms of science and technological inventions.)
Lots of the people of the past we read about and hold up today, whether in artistic or technical fields, weren't recognized in their own time. Our time is, likely, no better at recognizing those among us who will be viewed as notable in the future.
> Those were incredible times to be alive...
No such time existed. Its not like "the past" all happened at once, or even in one lifetime.
> How many great people, how many great writers, how many great singers and poets of the current times do you imagine students after fifty years will be learning?
Probably lots, many of which we're overlooking because of either excessive familiarity (in terms of art) or insufficient perspective to appreciate impact (in terms of science and technological inventions.)
Lots of the people of the past we read about and hold up today, whether in artistic or technical fields, weren't recognized in their own time. Our time is, likely, no better at recognizing those among us who will be viewed as notable in the future.