Well, do you remember anyone from 1425 or even 1625?
Wikipedia does.
That’s pretty neat actually.
Tbf, they didn’t have mass surveillance back then.
If the data doesn’t get lost, someone could find an average human in a developed country born in the 21st century, and could know what their entire life is like.
To be fair I don’t remember anyone from 600 years in the future.
“It’s my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another.”
No one needs to remember me except my kids. Maybe my grandkids.
“JAYNE, the man they call Jayne.”
Too late, thanks to big tech, your grandkids will know what type of porn you watch.
Yeah, and they’ll like it, whether they like it or not!
I imagine some archivists might find the lost fragments of this server is some ruins and by some miracle, maybe extract this very thread.
Yes. Or, they’ll get the thread with the awkward dog meme about a microwave. It’s beautiful to contemplate.
Hi to the future! 👋
ngl I don’t know if the earth will even be inhabitable in 600 years
Yeah true, to be remembered we need someone alive to remember us
There’s a running phrase that gets’ mentioned a lot in the Peanuts comic strip: “500 years from now, who’ll know the difference?”
Just wanted to mention that. Peace ✌️
I will write a blog complaining about copper prices. If my sources are correct I will be remembered forever.
Brave of you to assume that humanity will exist in 600 years.
Actually, we might be, but the better-off ones will be back at sticks and stones and huddling around wood fires and the like.
I really doubt this. Humanity is really good at surviving things.
My prediction - at a certain point, we gain the ability to port human brains to computers. The most wealthy gain this tech first, and effectively become immortal. Using their wealth (which is likely always accumulating) they are able to afford lots of redundency and good tech + energy to function at extremely high levels of performance - essentially making them immortal gods. I assume they will form alliances and rivalries, and stake out ground based on the now-general-intelligence AIs they have created.
Most people who choose transhumanism after this will need to utilize their afterlife continuing to work in order to pay for the ongoing cost of running their servers.
Meanwhile, humans still made of meat will have started conducting experiments on their genetics. Initially this will be about simply reducing or removing the chance of carrying a genetic disease. But soon they will start working on how to generally be better than others - improved cognitive abilities; sexier, stronger bodies; improved emotional regulation. Not long after, it will start being considered irresponsible to have children without the standard genetic modifications that the middle class can afford. Permanent class stratifications will be etched into dna. Even further along, the rich take genetic modification into fashion, creating physical markers of class stratification which will gradually make them look less human. As genetic class differences widen, there will be increasing class wars - in each one, the upper classes and those aligned with them will eliminate more and more of the lower classes. Slavery will also make a comeback, as those without genetic modifications (or with sufficiently lesser modifications) will be deemed too irresponsible to manage their own affairs and function in society. The descendents of the ultra-rich transhumanist gods, who will have the best and most fashionable genetic modifications, will be the first to achieve immortality in the flesh. But there will probably develop a sort of cultural expectation that they eventually give up their flesh and become transhumans like their anscestors.
Therefore, I will not have children unless I earn enough to afford their genetic modifications. To do otherwise would be irresponsible.
Is that even human tho?
Like the scientist who invented it will say its human, but from an ontology perspective, you can’t ever be sure about that. That could just be killing you and copying your brain.
No way in hell I’m gonna “upload” my brain. It’s suicide. Star trek teleporters are murder machines.
Why not? It has the thoughts, feelings, memories, and personality of a human. What else is a human? A physical body? Does, then, losong one’s leg male one less human?
Isn’t this the plot of Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling, the rich Mechanists that extend their life through machines vs the Shapers who rely on genetic modifications. Love, Death and Robots adapted a few short stories from this books universe that were very good
No idea, never heard of it. It just seems obvious to me with the way tech is going.
The only thing I find hard to believe in is DNA manipulation tech becoming affordable enough for the masses to choose to get it themselves, more likely it will be forced upon people to turn them into useful slave labor
No, but AIs will be able to generate a statistically accurate simulacrum of a set of people like us.
They may not remember us by our names, but they’ll be able to see the effects of the choices we made.
Doesn’t even take that long. My parent passed away and left boxes of pictures from 50 to 75 years ago and no one recognizes. Why did they have these pictures and boxes of them? No notes. Nothing.
As they say in preservation, metadata is key.
Upload it to Google photos or Facebook bet their face recognition AI would know lol
Dude I’ll forget you ever existed when I leave this thread. Bye.
I am doing Genealogy as a hobby and in most of the lines I am in the 18the century, in some in the 17th century.
What I learned during this hobby is a simple thing - the more generations you go back, the more ancestors you have - the formula is 2^n. So if you go back 10 generations, you have roughly 1,024 ancestors.
Now imagine how many descendants these people have? I have met plenty of others nerds who are also doing genealogy, cousins by 7the grade and so on. There is always some dude doing this stuff, so I am pretty sure there will be one in the future.
Of course I can only go back about 300-350 years, but we people today are leaving way more traces on this planet than my ancestors in the 17th century.
the formula is 2^n
This breaks down eventually. Eventually, incest.
That’s why I said roughly. The genealogical concept behind this is Ahnenschwund or pedigree collapse.
Fair enough. I just wanted to make an incest joke
I have a geneology book dating back 20 generations. Its all in tradition chinese and kinda blurry and I kinda never learned most of the charcters besides the basics. But I skimmed it and aparantly it dates back to 1200s. A lot of mention about emperors and stuff. Unfortunately I can’t share it with y’all since that’s kinda doxxing and I posted too much political stuff on Lemmy.
It’s only the male ancestors, patriarchy and all, ya know.
Honestly, besides the snippets if history, I don’t know what the point of the whole name lists is. Can’t even find the aunts on there, what good is that for.
Like… there’s not even a portrait (like a hand drawn one), just a bunch of names. What, am I gonna use that inherit some long lost magical kingdom that’s gonna appear out of nowhere? Am I the Dragonborn? No lolz. I can’t understand “tradition”
I guess its cool for declorations, make the house look ancient and mysterious?
The original is alresdy falling apart lol (probably not the original original, probably copied at least 5 times already, no way it survived 800 years), then all the genology books in the village kinda got consolidated into one big one containing all households. Everyone in the village has the same last name (I think). Y’all get to have sex in highschool, back in the days, people didn’t get to choose, my parents kinda just got introduced to each other and they wete pressured to marry. Its technically consensual, but if they reject, they are just gonna introduce you to someone else. Kinda reminds me of the beginning of House of Dragon (except the part about being royalty of course, we are all just ordinary people). And my parents yell at each other a lot, kinda a fragile marriage… 🤷♂️
That is pretty impressive!
So let me explain what my motivation is… I am not so much interested in origin. I don’t feel any connection to the ancestors I do not know, which starts with my great grandparents. I don’t even know my grant parents, however, there is a bound through my parents, who were brought up by them. So their character, how they see their world etc. is influenced by my grand parents.
Now, this is limited to my grand parents, we are speaking of a period of roughly 100 years. What about the ancestors before that time? My family tree is mostly made out of dates like you said, baptisms, marriages, deaths. A huge list of more or less random people that have nothing to do with me.
However, I am using these people to tap into the historical contexts they were born in.My family is entirely made out of day laborers in Germany. There are a few masons, but most of them day laborers, the lowest class you can imagine. Usually, when you study history, you are looking through a certain perspective. In Germany this will most likely be counts and dukes, aristocracy, wars, territories etc. - but not so much about the poor people. My genealogical research is basically opening a new window for me, to view history from another perspective. I collected an extensive collection of literature about the weirdest little villages and stories you would never even have heard of, if you’d just follow the “traditional” way like history is taught in schools.
I hope this explains it a bit!
No.
No.
Because history remembers people or groups who have made astounding and monumental moments that change the course of history.
They aren’t going to remember a dude who spent most of their time jerking off and doing the average lifestyle.
And why 600 years?
