Who or what will we leave behind us?

[blackburn_stevie]

I've just been watching an antiques type of prog on the goggle box and it got me thinking. The past centuries have brought us Goliaths in all sorts of fields ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Josiah Wedgwood via the House of Faberge. But what or who are we going to be remembered by?

Surely not Jedward, the London Eye or any recent winner of the Turner prize.

So who makes it in YOUR eyes?

[right-then-petal]

thinking hard

[jimbo1lee]

Damien Hirst,

Andy Warhol,

Tracy Emin,

Banksy,

[charliebird123]

James Watson DNA

Frank Whittle Jet engine

Tim Berners Lee  WWW.

[chickengrandma-2008]

Not in the arts but worth a mention,  Bill Gates, Princess Dianna, Christian Barnard, Mother Theresa.

[09charliegirl]

Yuri Gagarin

Valentina Tereshkova

Neil Armstrong

Curiosity ( human) AND the rover on Mars! :^O

[geographically*challenged]

Mr Dyson.

Bill Gates

[geographically*challenged]

Pope John Paul ll

[jimbo1lee]

Albert Einstein,

Thomas Edison,

Henry Ford,

John Boyd Dunlop,

Alexander Fleming,

Alexander Graham Bell,

AND, more recently,

Leonard Kleinrock,

Steve Jobs,

Tim Berners-Lee,

[blackburn_stevie]

Sorry guys. I may have done the OP wrong. You are giving me a list of names for folk who have done great things. Some I agree with and some I don't, but where are the artefacts? Where are today's majestically carved and painted porcelain figures? Where are today's sculptures the like of Rodin's The Thinker? OK, there may be one or two artists out there with a mass of ability but back in the 1800's there were dozens of them and much of their work still exists in museums and Art galleries.

[tommy.irene]

me

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We will leave behind FaceBook walls. 😐

I was thinking along the same lines recently, Steve.  Sorting my late mother's possessions, I came across some letters written by my great grandmother a few weeks before her death to my great aunt.  They were hurriedly scribed in pencil, just describing her daily activities, but they revealed such a lot about her, her relationships, and the times she lived in. 

Now letter writing has been surpassed by the transitory nature of emails and internal postings, there will be few such artefacts for future generations to treasure.  Sad.

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[margaret*e]

Same with photo's now, caution, we put them into PB or similar but hardly ever print them out, so there won't be many for future generations.

[chickengrandma-2008]

What about the controversial shell sculpture at Aldeburgh in Suffolk???

Work of art or eyesore??

[mitzigirl_123]

Nothing but concrete and litter!

[electric*mayhem*band]

Nothing but concrete and litter!

And of course a gigantic pile of rusting girders. To wit: 'The Angel of the North'.

Can't even bring myself to post a photo of that monstrosity. :_|

[papko]

Same with photo's now, caution, we put them into PB or similar but hardly ever print them out, so there won't be many for future generations.

 Surely its only been the last 120 years that we have had photos at all ?

 Thats about 4 generations ago ?

 there have been hundreds nay thousands of generations in Human development

If you do spend time looking a few generations back at photos and letters , a few minutes is probably how future generations will look at you , indeed in 100 years , who bothers ?

Like wise

 170 years ago , Britain was so strong , that she sent a warship to China , and it wiped out the entire Chinese Navy in afternoon !

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War

 Do you think Britian could do that now ? has our power declined ?

 Will another 170 years  change anything ? will Britain stop declining ? will other countries stop developing ?

[023mjc]

That unmade bed thing that Tracy Emmin did       :_| (did I spell her name right)      

[tommy.irene]

Years ago i put new pennys in a plastic box and put them in the ground with a note saying what they were..I hope someone finds them in 200 to 300 years time and makes money on them..Im now going to bury a mobile phone ..Hope it still works in years to come..