Who'll still be recognized 2000 years from now?

[oblizue]

So I'm in the middle of reading Aristotle's "The Politics" and I find it pretty amazing that even though his writings are over 2000 years old, we're still reading his works.

Is he a philosopher of the ages, permanently engrained within human society?
So what else will still be read, listened to, watched, played way beyond in the future?

Any contemporaries from now?

 

[Corporate Thug]

althletes and stephen hawkings

 

[Wallydraigle]

Knowing humanity and the irony of fate it will probably be Rosie O'Donnell or that kid from "Home Alone" who shall not be named.

 

[Anubis]

ill take "The extinct human race" for 500 alex

 

[Dingleberries]

Pimpbot 2000

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: lirion
Knowing humanity and the irony of fate it will probably be Rosie O'Donnell or that kid from "Home Alone" who shall not be named.

OH.. NOES! :Q

 

[chiwawa626]

Oprah

 

[Atlantean]

Bill Gates.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Pink Floyd

 

[Cyberian]

Not exactly a 'contemporary' now, but I imagine Albert Einstein will be remembered.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Oprah definatly.
Stephen Hawkins will be remambered like Einstien and Newton
Unfortunatly most of the major achievements in peoples lives aren't realized untill they've died, so there is a lot of potential contenders for this.

 

[Walleye]

gates will probably be called the new messiah, or some other deification. pretty screwed up


oh god, if rosie and oprah are remembered 2000 years from now, when i get out of cryostasis... i will cry.

 

[xDeLiRiOuSx]

Anandtech!

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Stephen Hawkins will be remambered like Einstien and Newton

No way in hell.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Stephen Hawkins will be remambered like Einstien and Newton

No way in hell.

yes he will. that man is resposable for juat about everything we know abut astrophysics, black holes and other neet physics stuff

 

[oblizue]

Hmm, what about the Beatles?
How bout movies? Will people still have Godfather in their databases?

 

[xeno2060]

No one the Human race won't survive past 2038, Giant Asteroid to impact and destroy all life.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Stephen Hawkins will be remambered like Einstien and Newton

No way in hell.

yes he will. that man is resposable for juat about everything we know abut astrophysics, black holes and other neet physics stuff

If you went to University of Rochester department of Physics and Astronomy

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/ and said that, you would get beat up by the faculty.

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: xeno2060
No one the Human race won't survive past 2038, Giant Asteroid to impact and destroy all life.

Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck will save us though

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Stephen Hawkins will be remambered like Einstien and Newton

No way in hell.

yes he will. that man is resposable for juat about everything we know abut astrophysics, black holes and other neet physics stuff

Most likely his findings will just be disproved as physics advances.
Aside from that, I'd have to say Ayn Rand will be around for some time. She'll doubtless stand less than Aristotle, though, as much of her philosophy is based on his writings.

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: brunswickite

Originally posted by: xeno2060
No one the Human race won't survive past 2038, Giant Asteroid to impact and destroy all life.

Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck will save us though

Not Matt Damon and Ben Affleck?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Moonbeam!

 

[Dingleberries]

the Masturbating Bear

 

[XZeroII]

The bunnie with the pancake on it's head. Someone will come across the picture and think it had some sort of religious significance


That and Einstein.

I'd also take a piece of the Apocolypse in 500

 

[Turkish]

ME! ME! ME!