Bryan Johnson argues that history remembers only a handful of moments from any era, no matter how much we record. The 21st century will be distilled to a few essential ideas, just like the 15th-17th centuries are now. He urges focusing on what will matter 100, 200, or 300 years from now.
What matters in the 25th century. Like you go back and look what matters in the 15th century and 16th and 17th, and you find that 99% of all things that happen, I'm making up a number, is gone. And we're left with these teeny little nuggets of information. Now there's more because we're capturing more than we ever had before. But time has a way to filter out non essential relevance. And so if you say that now, if we say what we're doing in 2023, and you look at your life and you map out what's going to left of your existence in 10 years, 100 years, 200 years, 300 years, and that's what I want to focus on, is only those things.
