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The year is 4020. Who from our modern era is still universally known?
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Post 1800
Napoleon
Armstrong
Hitler + Nazi's (Probably the most unfortunately)
Stalin
Churchill
Beethoven
Newton/Einstein
Exceptionally eurocentric but we are living in an increasingly Westernised World.
Napoleon
Armstrong
Hitler + Nazi's (Probably the most unfortunately)
Stalin
Churchill
Beethoven
Newton/Einstein
Exceptionally eurocentric but we are living in an increasingly Westernised World.
Given how many people from 2000 years ago are still known, I'd wager quite a few. Especially since events are so much better documented than 2000 year ago, although that may be a double-edged sword. Tutankhamun was given a golden death mask in his time, which survived until our time. It both lets us know he was considered important in Ancient Egypt but it also grants him fame in the modern world. With so much information available on just about everyone who is remotely important in our current age, yet without any grand monuments to tell apart the really important ones, today's big names might just end up as footnotes the history books of the year 4000.
In that light, 'anonymous' statues like The Motherland Calls (Russia) or the Statue of Liberty (America), that represent events or virtues rather than actual persons, might end up as the real famous persons that survive into the distant future, should these monuments remain standing that long.
In that light, 'anonymous' statues like The Motherland Calls (Russia) or the Statue of Liberty (America), that represent events or virtues rather than actual persons, might end up as the real famous persons that survive into the distant future, should these monuments remain standing that long.
I doubt the people we find prominent now would be prominent in the next millennias (unless they screwed up the earth so badly, like nuclear wars and shit).
My guess, scientists /mathematicians like Einstein Newton and Hawking will continue to be famous. Maybe al-Khwārizmī will get some spotlight in the future.
My guess, scientists /mathematicians like Einstein Newton and Hawking will continue to be famous. Maybe al-Khwārizmī will get some spotlight in the future.
In 2000 years I doubt people will have the same concept of race and understand its huge significance in our time.
Doubt it.
But my reason being that I'm hoping the world gets more secular over time.
Mozart
The thing with Hitler is that his legacy, too, will be fleeting if there's another conflict beyond the scale of WWII.
The thing with Hitler is that his legacy, too, will be fleeting if there's another conflict beyond the scale of WWII.
I had to google who Tom Brady is. Never heard of the name, don't recognize his face. Outside of America American football and its players are not really big.
From the past 200 years there are plenty of composers who have some timeless creations like Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven that have a good chance of having their works (and subsequently, their names) carried on through the future. Picasso is another good one people have already listed.
Beyond the arts, we have to make many assumptions of how the world develops. Does the world get unified or dominated by a single large government, or are there still independent countries? How fucked does it get from climate change (from very to borderline uninhabitable by people)? Has there been a nuclear apocalypse? Do we actually begin to colonize space? Some of these will restrict the amount of history that makes it into the future while others will change the context such that events from now are not at all important. That said, I think Hitler has the best chance of being remembered with Mao and Ghandi being up there because the sheer size of India's and China's populations today would help carry them into the future.
Beyond the arts, we have to make many assumptions of how the world develops. Does the world get unified or dominated by a single large government, or are there still independent countries? How fucked does it get from climate change (from very to borderline uninhabitable by people)? Has there been a nuclear apocalypse? Do we actually begin to colonize space? Some of these will restrict the amount of history that makes it into the future while others will change the context such that events from now are not at all important. That said, I think Hitler has the best chance of being remembered with Mao and Ghandi being up there because the sheer size of India's and China's populations today would help carry them into the future.
The correct answer is nobody. 2000 years is a long fucking time, and even today universal recognition is pretty much reserved for religious figures. A whole hell of a lot of both horrific and amazing things will happen in 2000 years time, and people can only keep track of so much. Historians might take an interest in a handful of people, but lol at anybody who thinks that future civilizations will give two shits about our popular culture.
Countries will have collapsed so long before then that noone will even understand what countries were.
I don't know if they will stay in humankind's memory in 2000 years, because a lot can happen in that time frame, but imo the most (in)famous and influential people in their fields of the last 200 years are:
- Hitler
- Einstein
- Beethoven
- Picasso
Edit: Funny how only one of those is not related to Germany, lol.
- Hitler
- Einstein
- Beethoven
- Picasso
Edit: Funny how only one of those is not related to Germany, lol.
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Steve martin. I refuse to believe that people will ever stop watching the jerk or planes, trains, and automobiles.
The bolded is especially true since inventions nowadays increasingly come from teams rather than individuals
There's a crap-ton of people in the Bible that get remembered, so I imagine you don't even need to be directly famous to make it 2000 years. You just need to be associated with extremely famous people or big events. Seriously, we know who Pontius Pilate is, so I assume any random politician could end up being known if they happen to be in the right place for a single event.
Given the amount of people from just that one book that are known, I assume there will be far more people than most expect who's memory survives into the future.
Given the amount of people from just that one book that are known, I assume there will be far more people than most expect who's memory survives into the future.
A lot of people living today unfortunately don't even known about Stalin or Lenin
Sports figures won't be remembered, especially those of sports that are not international.
Footy players are more world renowned.
The Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo rivalry has more chances of getting mentioned then anything baseball
Outside Einstein and Hitler, probably some other political figure (Napoleon, Mao, Stalin), some artists (Beethoven, Picasso).
Also some other scientist, be it only because we gave physical units or fundamental physical formulas / porperties their name (Ohm, Tesla, Hertz, Joule, Kelvin, Celsius (not Farenheit...), Becquerel, Ampere, Volta, Faraday, Maxwell, Fermi...)
I'm pretty sure you know who Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Pythagores, Archimedes or Homer are, and they are all from over 2000 year ago, and all political figures, scientists or artists.
Also some other scientist, be it only because we gave physical units or fundamental physical formulas / porperties their name (Ohm, Tesla, Hertz, Joule, Kelvin, Celsius (not Farenheit...), Becquerel, Ampere, Volta, Faraday, Maxwell, Fermi...)
I'm pretty sure you know who Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Pythagores, Archimedes or Homer are, and they are all from over 2000 year ago, and all political figures, scientists or artists.
L Ron Hubbard
If you want to be remembered thousands of years from now, start your own religion.
If you want to be remembered thousands of years from now, start your own religion.
