Who will be remembered 1,000 years from now?

Re:Who will be remembered 1,000 years from now? by winestock on Saturday October 08, 2011 @11:27AM (#3088116)

The best way to answer that question is to flip the sign bit and the verb tense. Whom do we remember best from the past one thousand years? Or longer?

The best way to be remembered across the millenia is to be either a sage of some sort (philosopher, mathematician, prophet, law-giver) or to kill a lot of people (conqueror, ruler, and so forth).

Therefore, the people who lived in the past hundred years who will be best remembered a thousand years from now will be Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and some thinkers that you've never heard of but that ultra-conservative Christians love to quote.

"Those of you who will live into the twenty-first century, come put a wreath on my grave, because this will be the slogan: No more twentieth centuries…" - Isaac Asimov (1974)

Have a nice day, and pleasant dreams.

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Re:Who will be remembered 1,000 years from now? by MostAwesomeDude on Saturday October 08, 2011 @02:17PM (#3088535)

Along those lines, I'm going to go with the great philosophers of the past century, Sartre and Nietzsche; the murderers Hitler and Pol Pot, the physicist Einstein, the revolutionaries Guevara and Lenin, the composer Shostakovich, and the mathematician Gödel.

(Yes, I know that Neitzsche and Lenin have a half-century head start. They're still worth mentioning for their enduring legacies, and Lenin's gonna be lying in that glass box for a long time.)

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