> On the other hand if Shakespeare had died in infancy, there would be no
> reason to believe someone else would have written those literary works.
> (Well, maybe someone did write them, but you get the point :) Perhaps it is
> the works of the 20th century Shakespeares that should be preserved.
>
OK, name one. The problem is probably that we aren't far enough removed from
artistic creations to choose the ones that will survive the ages. Also, we
have lived through a time of the creation of a new artistic medium, film.
And what about artists and musicians?
Anyway, that wasn't what the original challange was about, David. We were
supposed to choose 5 scientific ideas.
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