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Of course they would! Are you seriously suggesting that cars wouldn't have developed without Ford! Ridiculous theory! If the Germans hadn't invented the automobile when they did somebody else would have at some point soon afterwards!
I think he or she is referring to how Ford’s mastery of mass production brought the cost per unit down to the point where the common man could use it and allowed it to takeoff throughout society.
Yeah, I think nukes had more to do with the end to direct great power wars than anything that America has done post WWII. There just cannot be such a war now without a legitimate risk to human civilization as a whole, if not extinction of human life on the planet. That's too high a price to pay for ANY rational human no matter what the matter in dispute is. Regardless of what you think of the Soviets or Communism in general, the people leading the USSR were certainly rational actors who did not want to destroy humanity any more than US leaders did.
Nukes and the economic entanglements.
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I would say Hollywood .
No one makes movies the way we do. Still .
Nobody will care about hollywood in 1000 years.
It'll all be virtual reality and you'll be staring your own movies.
Past predictions have shown that attitudes and ideas fifty years in the future can at best be predicted vaguely. An entire millennium?
Like I said, no one knows.
We know how other powers and civilizations are remembered/looked at over time. I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to start a discussion with how YOU think America will be remembered.
It'll all be virtual reality and you'll be staring your own movies.
We remember other forms of legendary entertainment like the hippodrome, Colosseum, Shakespeare’s plays, and Greek mythology? No?
I guess on further look though, some of the things that I originally listed, like the Civil War, are way too localized for other people to care about hundreds of years later.
We remember other forms of legendary entertainment like the hippodrome, Colosseum, Shakespeare’s plays, and Greek mythology? No?
I guess on further look though, some of the things that I originally listed, like the Civil War, are way too localized for other people to care about hundreds of years later.
Hippodrome and colosseum were physical buildings.
Shakespeare's plays are still relatively recent.
Greek mythology... people use it in literature but you might be overshooting how many people really know it.
I don't put hollywood on any of the above levels of importance to human history.
1,000 years from now we might have the what... holographic rooms? from Star Trek.
Hollywood relies on retelling stories of the past, and retelling them over and over again. 1,000 years from now they'll be telling their own stories of the Romans.
Greek mythology... people use it in literature but you might be overshooting how many people really know it.
I don't put hollywood on any of the above levels of importance to human history.
1,000 years from now we might have the what... holographic rooms? from Star Trek.
Hollywood relies on retelling stories of the past, and retelling them over and over again. 1,000 years from now they'll be telling their own stories of the Romans.
Physical buildings known for their gladiator games and chariot races.
Shakespeare lived 450 years ago.
I think people know things like the Trojan Horse or oedipus or the odyssey or Achilles.
But maybe you’re right. I just think Hollywood is pretty iconic to American cultural power, and this important to its legacy.
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I think he or she is referring to how Ford’s mastery of mass production brought the cost per unit down to the point where the common man could use it and allowed it to takeoff throughout society.
That's exactly what I meant. Ford pioneered mass production.
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