Will Anyone Remember You?

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   Freeway Flyerposted 14 years ago

   In 100 years, do you think that anyone will remember (or care about) you? Most people throughout history were basically forgotten about not long after they died. But now that we live in a digital age in which massive amounts of information are potentially being produced about (and by) us, does this increase the chance that the memory of us will stay alive? What will someday happen to all of those hubs, facebook posts, tweets, and other information that we have shared?

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      Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      They might get buried under tons of other hubs, tweets and posts unless you produce something really significant.

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         camloposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         But our Hubs will have 'matured' by then.

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            Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            How do you think the hubs mature? How does a new hub ranks in Google? It takes the place some other article was previously holding. Similarly, other articles will take the place of our hubs.

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               camloposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               I know

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                  Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  LOL! Guess I missed the sarcasm in your previous post.

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               Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               Yes, but the older the hub the more backlinks it's got the higher it ranks. Am I missing something?

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                  Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  Mate, your hub ranks by outranking someone else's. So, it is natural that some other article will take the place of your hub. And you want be there to build backlinks and organic backlinks don't come that easily unless something is written really well.

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                     Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                     I guess it's a pretty complex issue. You're hub has to be good, you have to get organic backlinks, and even if you got them there might be a better hub that's better than yours despite your better backlinked-to hub... whatever lol

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      Website Examinerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Excellent OP!
      
      These technologies are ubiquitous, and everyone uses them, so the amount of information is growing exponentially as well. People's attention span is short, but it is theoretically possible to make our information accessible to the few who are interested.
      
      Today, there is no known method for making information searchable and accessible into the future, since file formats are quickly outdated. This is already a huge problem, which worries many archivists. 100 years is a very long period of time, and today's known companies and technologies will have been replaced by then.
      
      Probably, humanity will change - with hybrids between humans and machines being created. These creatures will have longer life spans, and it will probably be possible to transfer all memory from one generation to the next. But as far as "memory," that kind of data processing may be very different from what you had in mind.

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         Wesman Todd Shawposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Wow, dude!  You've one hell of a vision.  I'm thinking catastrophe, like the meteor that killed the dinosaur, but different. . . . .will take us out,  maybe before what you describe, or maybe a bit after.

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            Website Examinerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Here are a couple of sources:
            
            
            Why the Future Doesn't Need Us by Bill Joy, Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems:
            
            http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
            
            
            Ray Kurzweil, who really believes in such things:
            
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

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         simeonvisserposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Why would the digital companies have been replaced by then? There are quite a few brick-and-mortar (i.e. not digital) companies out there that have been around for over a hundred years. I don't see why digital companies can't. The pace is higher and they must adapt but many are succeeding for decades already.

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      dutchman1951posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      no, no  one will remember, this site and for that mater maybe even computers as we know them will not exhist. nothing will stay as is.

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      Wesman Todd Shawposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Here's the thing:  the internet.
      
      My HOPES are that this blogging, or hubbing thing. . . . .has some permanence to it.  I'd LOVE for my kin folk of tomorrow, should they be interested, be able to know me from these hubs, my myspace blogs, etc, etc, etc.

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      Shahid Bukhariposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Yes ...
      
      I remember, Him ... He Remembers me ... and thats all, whats Meaningful, in Being ... to a Servant.

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      Alisha Sharmaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Help some one who is in disaster/problem, he will never forget you till death.

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         uncorrectedvisionposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         His memory of you will only last as long as he lives.

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            Alisha Sharmaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            yes, but if u want yourself to be remembered then do something great for your society or country.

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   Hauntyposted 14 years ago

   I've never understood why people would want to be remembered after their death... Anyway, I don't think the Internet changes anything in terms of being remembered or not.

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      DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Ive often wondered why worry about what's remembered? I think that if your children remeber you and pass the info, stories etc on to thier children, at some point someone may look you up on the internet, but I dont think they will find too much. Ive tried to look up stuff aobut myself from teh past, jsut to see whats there, and found nothing. And Im talking about events that happened a little over ten years ago.

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         Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         You were using the net ten years ago?

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            DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            yeah. I got my first online setup in..umm...97, I think. But I mean..I tried to look up news stuff. They dont seem to keep articles that long. Or Im a bad searcher...

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               Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               One thing I know about you is that you're an exceptionally good searcher. So I trust whatever you say.

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                  DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  ha ha ha...awww..thanks.

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      Freeway Flyerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Historians might find ways to use it (if any of this stuff is available somewhere.)

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      Wesman Todd Shawposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      You don't want to be remembered for anything?  That's wild-I do want to be remembered, and I think most of us do.  I think it's obvious that the internet could very well change everything.. .or make our histories much more accessible than books.

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   Eaglekiwiposted 14 years ago

   Do you mean generally or just on Hubpages ,if its the latter I doubt it ,but thing is ,its not like we are gonna know anyway
   
   P.S Ive noticed some hubbers have cute lil 'e''s on the bottom left of their profile pics-what does it mean ?

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      DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Elite.
      
      http://hubpages.com/elite/
      
      hey EK. 

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         Eaglekiwiposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Ohhhhh my  !
         
         Does that mean they get to bring the beer too

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            DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            maybe..... I know I get to bring beer anyway, with or without the E.

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               Eaglekiwiposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               Dats cuz you is E-xclusively E-xciting !

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                  DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  hehee.  Love the new pic!!

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                     Eaglekiwiposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                     Aww tanks berry much .

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   Jasmine JellyBabyposted 14 years ago

   I don't think the world will get another hundred years..
   
   It's ending on December 21st 2012 so yeah my hubs will still there, but they'll probably fizzle out on the stairway to heaven or the highway to hell

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      Eaglekiwiposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Ending 2012 ? Again
      Well no-one emailed me so Im stayin  put,besides someones gotta mow the grass :0

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         DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         the world has ended so many times, Im over it. 

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            Freeway Flyerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            You just missed it. This world is actually a different place than the last 14 that already ended.

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         Jasmine JellyBabyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Oh now its not being emailed.. they're using chinese whispers so now that I've told you, you gotta tell someone else!

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         Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Where have you been in the last 2 years? lol

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      Freeway Flyerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Do your Christmas shopping early.

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   Website Examinerposted 14 years ago

   

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      DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      AWESOME!!!!

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      camloposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Incredible. It's not real, is it?

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      Jasmine JellyBabyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      That's freaking cool

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         Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         It's that cool. And it's real. Trust me. lol

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            camloposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            You mean, somebody died?

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               DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               For some reason that question strikes me as funny. I KNOW its not funny someone died, but...anyway...

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                  Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  It's not your fault, cuz it's funny. No one died, we're all just being silly.

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                     DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                     you guys suck!!!!!! (not really) when I was a kid I looked up gulliable to prove to my dad it really was in the dicitionary...

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                        Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                        It made me laugh!

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                           DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                           hahahahahaa. yay!!

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                              camloposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                              Me too!

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            timorousposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Yes...it took 7 unemployed monkeys (2 of them with hammers and chisels) 3 hours to create this masterpiece.  It wouldn't have taken so long, but for the fact that the other five monkeys were foremen..jumping around shrieking and laughing the whole time.  One of them actually had learned a passable English, which is why it turned out so well.

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   Eaglekiwiposted 14 years ago

   Dunno but its freaky to me ,must be the season ..boo!

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      DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      

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   Greek Oneposted 14 years ago

   As a result of police records moving from a paper-based storage system to an electronic one, I am confident that I will be remembered long after my passing

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      Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      lolol, ain't you that bad?

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      DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      no really, you wont. 

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         Greek Oneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         even should said records be erased, I am confident that the extensive alcohol currently flowing in my system will act as a 'pickling' agent, and preserve my body for the future civilizations of evolved ape-like societies to dissect.
         
         
         

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            DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I once knew a guy who was named Pickle.
            
            They will make statues of you.

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               Greek Oneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               do you mean they will use my body to make statues FROM (as building material),
               or that they will copy my likeness?

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                  DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  I suppose it depends on hard you are, they could make a mold, or just copy you.  Wich do you prefer?

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                     Greek Oneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                     the last time i commented on how hard i was I got kicked off of a dating site

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                        DoorMattnomoreposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                        oh well. You cant make everybody happy.

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   MJ Wadsworthposted 14 years ago

   I'd like to think so. My intention is to go out in a blaze of glory. In all probability I'll go out with about as much glory as a dud firework. But a guys gotta dream. Whiles away the grey areas, like work, bathroom visits and cleaning the apartment.

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   Tusitala Tomposted 14 years ago

   It would be vanity indeed to be expected to be remembered by a great many people 100 years after one's death.  But the chances are your descendants will want to check who you are and what you did.  Gynealogy is gaining in momentum as it gets easier to check into the past. 
   
   To engender the probability that at least your children, grandchildren and, perhaps even great grandchildren will want to know about you, my advice would be 'write your autobiography.'   I have.  You can then place it on computer.  Or, like I've done, have some cheap printing done so that you can hand each of your kids a copy as a present.   When they're young, it won't mean much; might not even be read - at that time - but down the track, when they're older, they'll be so glad that you did.

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      Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Hand your descendants a copy of your autobiography. Ha ha ha ha ha ah ah aha ha aha ah aha ah ah ah ah ah ha ha ha ha han  ahna han ah anh ahh ahn ahn ahh ah ahn ahnahhh ahh ah han ah ahahahahahah ha ah ah ah ahhhh ha hh a...

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      Freeway Flyerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I'm sort of writing it in little pieces. Maybe someday I can organize it in some rational way.

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    Old Empresarioposted 14 years ago

    Unless you are famous or are a political leader, future historians will most likely disregard your existence. The best way to preserve your personal exploits for posterity is to create some sort of record of you and your life. Give one of these records to each of your children, who can in turn pass the record down for many generations. Hundreds of years from now, your descendents will keep the memory of your life alive. Even if only a handful of people are the ones who care about it, it's better than nothing.

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    Spirit Whispererposted 14 years ago

    You exist in your own mind. Even your body comes from mind. The world you imagine is real is a construct of mind. Yes, you will be remembered...by your mind!

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