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Re:Who will be remembered in 1,000 years? by goatlover on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @06:33PM (#16011739)
Famous philosophers, writers, painters, inventors, explorers, religious visionaries and rulers are also remembered over millennia, as long as something about them is transmitted faithfully to succeeding generations.
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Re:Who will be remembered in 1,000 years? by Koshkin on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @07:49PM (#16012040)
Which means that in the future it will be pretty much everyone who, say, owns a Facebook account.
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Re:Who will be remembered in 1,000 years? by craftyguy on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @08:10PM (#16012111)
I doubt most of our digital records will make it that long. They are far too fragile.
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