While thinking on the meaning of life, I’ve hover on the assumption that we all would like to leave our mark in this world. Mozart did it in the super artistic means of symphonies and legendary melodies, and Da Vinci made it using a sublime skills of mix between a paint brush and innovative mind. My question is how can any of us do so today?
Today we are in a new age, maybe the most technological advanced age that this earth knew. Where every week we are encountering new innovations in all the technologic industries. I guess that have to do with the new digital era, today all the analogic information is converted to “Ever lasting” digital media that can be transfer easily from one side of the globe to another in minutes.
And the new era of easy global communication and knowledge base sharing, that enable researches to concat conclusion from different researches and get something new out of it. And this is how we got the substrate for an exponential growth in knowledge and innovations.
And all of that made me wonder… if Mozart and Da Vinci would have been born today. Would they achieve what they were able to achieve in the past life? And how they would expose their creation? in YouTube or Facebook?. would they sell their art on eBay or any other e-commerce site? would they create their own web site or get tired of the extreme pace this live requires and just smoke drugs all day and create art in their own home. That made me think that there is a big possibility they wouldn’t get the world fame and recognition they achieved centuries ago.
After this conclusion I’ve start thinking How can one leave his signature today. Well I guess in a couple of ways:
- Break an amazing world record. like Usain Bolt or 8 an amazing winning streak like Michael Phelps
- Write common used application such as Windows or default web site like google
- Invent a best seller gadget like iPhone/iPod
- Create a great YouTube clip that will be forgiven.
I guess there are lots of ways in this list. But, I have some internal doubts that any of them will last in the next 300 years and become ‘Imortal’ in our culture.
