Hard to say. I think the internet changes everything. More people will be archived, but less people will be truly REMEMBERED, since there will be such an over saturation of work that it will all sort of just blend together.
>>8334969
Joyce and Hemingway
>>8334969
Thousands of years from now only the likes of Shakespeare and Goethe will be remembered. But humanity won't last that long anyway.
>>8334986
>thousands
nigga.
If humanity were to exist for thousand more years, Shakespeare and Goethe would see the amount of recognition Horace and Ovid see nowadays.
Do you see people reading complete works of these two? Learning their language just for that, equating themselves with them?
>>8335051
wow, reddit can be so epic
John Green
>>8334969
J.r.r Tolkien
David Foster Wallace