None, we remember thinkers, not engineers. They will remember Einstein and Newton and Aristotle, just like we do.
Wow, that was profound. You are a thinker my friend.
Ask HN: Which tech founder, company or tool will be remembered in 1,000 years?
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Re: Ask HN: Which tech founder, company or tool will be remembered in 1,000 years?
#12Can you name 10 founders of companies from more than 1,000 years ago? I cannot. Additionally, there are only a handful of companies left that were founded more than 1,000 years ago [1]. Therefore, it's unlikely that any founder or company will be remembered in 1,000 years. If I have to make a wild guess what will be remembered in 1,000 years, I would guess that SI units with its derived units will still be in place.…
> Gustav Hertz
Heinrich Hertz?
Re: Ask HN: Which tech founder, company or tool will be remembered in 1,000 years?
#13Can you name 10 founders of companies from more than 1,000 years ago? I cannot. Additionally, there are only a handful of companies left that were founded more than 1,000 years ago [1]. Therefore, it's unlikely that any founder or company will be remembered in 1,000 years. If I have to make a wild guess what will be remembered in 1,000 years, I would guess that SI units with its derived units will still be in place.…
I didn’t even think of SI units. That’s a good point.
In the same way that the Dutch East India and British India companies are referenced in college courses as the first “publicly traded” companies or as tools of colonization, I was wondering if the impact of Apple, Microsoft, Tesla might be viewed in a similar way in the future.
Re: Ask HN: Which tech founder, company or tool will be remembered in 1,000 years?
#14None, we remember thinkers, not engineers. They will remember Einstein and Newton and Aristotle, just like we do.
There are plenty of engineers that will stay in history forever but obviously they aren't as popular as some thinkers.
Name one. Actually I can - Brunel who built much of Victorian Britain, but only because I have a specific interest in that and he may well be the most famous engineer in history.
I suppose Da Vinci is kinda sortof an engineer, but he was a visionary thinker engineer not a bridge builder. And he kind of painted the Mona Lisa too.