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It's a bit simpler than this article outlines. How much you are remembered is based on what your accomplishments/stores/press/etc are recorded in. For example,
by electic 9y ago
It's a bit simpler than this article outlines. How much you are remembered is based on what your accomplishments/stores/press/etc are recorded in.
For example, if you were a world renowned inventor and everyone wrote and communicated about you via clay pots then your memory is only carried on as a function of how many clay pot readers there are. Since all clay pot readers are dead and the medium itself is dead, your memory is dead. This is assuming no one transcribed the text from clay pots to whatever new communication medium came next.
- alexasmyths 9y agoRamses was probably only recorded on stone tablets for quite some time, they stopped that a while back and he is still remembered :)
- electic 9y agoHe is remembered because people took the tablets and transcribed it from medium to medium. Wrote books about it. Made movies about it. And created internet articles about it. If no one moved it from tablets to these new mediums, he would not have been remembered. Tutankhamun is a great example of this. His name was forgotten. His existence forgotten until they discovered his tomb, read the tablets, and then transcribed knowledge of his life to the modern medium. His memory now exists because we transcribe and communicate this information today.
- mc32 9y agoI think they mean remembered in the public consciousness rather than remembered at all --as in having a record of the person [as in the Sayers example]. Now, it's true that we might have some more people in our consciousness if some of those people had been recorded in more durable media --or that they had a written medium at all.