Think for a moment about the billions of lives that were lived before ours – the lives of our people, the lives of our ancestors, each of them unique, each of them the story of one human soul set against the backdrop of a certain time and a certain place. Each of those people once looked out at the world just as we do now, they breathed as we do, thought as we do, hoped as we do; and they died, just as we too will one day pass into history. The things they did influenced our

If you’ve ever thought about the future, you may wonder what things will be like after you’ve gone and whether or not you’ll be remembered. Perhaps you’ve led an ordinary life, or perhaps you’ve achieved extraordinary things—but regardless of how you’ve lived, one thing’s for certain: almost everything you’ve lived for will one day be forgotten, and after a century from now, it’s unlikely that even your descendants will know much more about you than your name. Your achievem