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>Stallman is the Socrates of our times who will be appreciated only centuries later perhaps by a distant generation. Speculation: I believe that there were man
by dennis_jeeves2 2y ago
>Stallman is the Socrates of our times who will be appreciated only centuries later perhaps by a distant generation.
Speculation: I believe that there were many in the league of Socrates who were never known.
- ivan_gammel 2y ago> I believe that there were many in the league of Socrates who were never known. Yes. History is choosing random names for preservation. If every century had just one worthy name or event, in 1 million years there will be 10000 of them, way too many to remember. Eventually the humankind will forget almost everything that we think is important about our culture. The information may not be lost, but it will be buried in some scientific databases. I bet that Stallman won’t last even a century. He is a pioneer, naive and controversial, but the main works on ethics of software, copyright etc are yet to be written, and the names of those authors will shine brighter.
- dennis_jeeves2 2y agoExtrapolating tangentially along lines of what you just, overall people _think_ that there is an upward trajectory of overall wisdom because of events in the past. My observation is that it is not. Th average human memory is very, very short.