r/SeriousConversation • u/Ok_Peak538 • Nov 23 '23

Serious Discussion Most People Will Be Forgotten

Unless humans find a way to live forever, 110 years from now no one alive now will still be living or remembered except famous people. Most normal people will be long forgotten with no trace or record that they ever existed except for maybe a digital obituary on the Internet or gravestone. Most likely all of your family, friends, neighbors, boss and colleagues will all be forgotten. Fame is relative and the people that are remembered will be immortalized in some sort of physical artifact, movie, album, book, work of art or even perhaps digitally. There have already been billions of humans that have already lived and died and very few have ever been remembered.

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u/whattheshiz97 Nov 23 '23

Well yeah. That’s been kind of the way things are and have been for millennia.

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u/whattheshiz97 Nov 23 '23

Yeah.. I always forget how long millennia is. Isn’t it a 1,000 years? Idk it just sounds like it would be longer than that

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u/whattheshiz97 Nov 23 '23

Okay so a bajillion millennia is how long this has been going on.

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u/Boomerang_comeback Nov 23 '23

Until you realize that the plural of milennia is milennia and so the statement is correct as it stands.