All of what you do today is transient, but what lives on is the fact that you contributed to the process of building new and better technology. If you contribut

All of what you do today is transient, but what lives on is the fact that you contributed to the process of building new and better technology. If you contribute to the right technologies, you might also live on in addition, but it is true that pretty much nothing you do will last in and of itself as an entity. That's fine and as it should be - if your work is lasting then progress must have halted in a field you care enough about to contribute to. That can't be good.