5 ms·
Can you name 10 founders of companies from more than 1,000 years ago? I cannot. Additionally, there are only a handful of companies left that were founded more
by noud 4y ago
Can you name 10 founders of companies from more than 1,000 years ago? I cannot. Additionally, there are only a handful of companies left that were founded more than 1,000 years ago [1]. Therefore, it's unlikely that any founder or company will be remembered in 1,000 years.
If I have to make a wild guess what will be remembered in 1,000 years, I would guess that SI units with its derived units will still be in place. [2] These (derived) units are named after some inventors, James Watt, Gustav Hertz, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Lord Kelvin. Maybe some of them will be remembered in 1,000 years. But keep in mind, 1,000 years is a very very long time. A lot can be forgotten in that time span.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
- gabrielsroka 4y ago> Gustav Hertz Heinrich Hertz?
- jollofricepeas 4y agoI didn’t even think of SI units. That’s a good point. In the same way that the Dutch East India and British India companies are referenced in college courses as the first “publicly traded” companies or as tools of colonization, I was wondering if the impact of Apple, Microsoft, Tesla might be viewed in a similar way in the future.