Living your life with a goal to be remembered in 100 years sounds more like living life to impress people you aren't even sure will regard what you are doing as important. Politicians, whether they changed the world for good or bad, are more likely to be remembered that 99% of who are contributing positively to this world.
Who will remember you in 100 years?
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#22"Your most ambitious and daring dreams, no matter if they succeed or not, will mean absolutely nothing when you are gone."
I need to remember this when I'm freaking out about an interview or a presentation.
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#23If any software I work on today survives that long without any major rewrites I just hope they are not yelling and cursing my name because I missed a 100 year old bug.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the most depressing comment in the thread. It's not about how long we live, it's about how long we live while we are in our prime... Gen 1 tech issues... we are extending lives, we aren't really extending prime years... so all we're doing is stretching out that twilight-period. Every time I visit my 97 year-old grandparents they say things like, "I pray I'll go soon..." I'd rather just go quick at 50 than pro…
I'm fascinated by this idea. Let's say there's tech to freeze your age at whatever point you like. Where would you want it to be frozen?
26 sounds like a decent age, but you never know if it's your prime or not.
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#25I was putting working a genealogical tree today (using gramps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramps).
Even within your family it is hard to remember people after a couple of generations.
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#26That's one thing that has always bothered me about grave yards: how little the people end up leaving behind. An entire life gets reduced to a few meaningless facts about a person that don't really tell us anything about who they were. It would kind of be nice in that sense if there was more information available about a person to perhaps leave something behind. Maybe some wisdom or entertaining historical facts from…
The problem is not that information can't be persisted: diaries etc have been around for a long time. The problem is that there is nobody left who will care about a person they've never even met.
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#27Many times, in my career while negotiating something with another party I've said, "Let's get this fixed, it won't mean much to either of us in 50 years and in 100 nobody will remember either of us." I've managed to solve some pretty hairy problems saying that, the other party usually pauses and realizes the futility of our disagreement and we work something out. Call me morbid but I started saying that when I was 18…
It's not morbid, but sensible. No-one gets out of life alive.
An unexpected death in my immediate family several years ago helped me realize how underprepared most of us are for death; for all the people and living things around us to die. Rather than be caught surprised, I've tried to remember that life can end in any moment, and it's best to make the most of things (and borrowed atoms, as you say) while you can.
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#28In all seriousness,
Who cares? I don't.
It's like discussing life after death. I'm fine with just this one.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Geocities were there 20 years ago. I posted some cringeworthy things there. Now they aren't there anymore (thank goodness). Your posts, too, shall pass.
Storage gets cheaper and cheaper.
don't data centers and the rest of our electrical infrastructure still need natural gas and other limited resources to function?
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#30Many times, in my career while negotiating something with another party I've said, "Let's get this fixed, it won't mean much to either of us in 50 years and in 100 nobody will remember either of us." I've managed to solve some pretty hairy problems saying that, the other party usually pauses and realizes the futility of our disagreement and we work something out. Call me morbid but I started saying that when I was 18…
> at some point I must give my atoms back to the universe for whatever purpose they find in the future
Nitpick: you're already giving back everyday a fairly high amount of atoms to the universe. Actually, it looks like a hight percentage of your original atoms have already been replaced many times [0].
[0] http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...