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David Frum: "Murray [challenges] his readers and listeners to name even one artistic or scientific achievement (he thinks science – pure science, that is, as opposed to technological or engineering progress - is declining for different reasons) of the past 50 years that will still matter to people in the year 2200."

PrestoPundit's 10 things from 1950 to 2000 that will still matter two hundred years hence:

1. Discovery of DNA.

2. Disney's Winnie the Pooh.

3. Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.

5. Gerald Edelman's clonal selection theory of the immune system -- and later developments.

5. The Sound of Music.

6. Discovery of REM sleep and related sleep science developments.

7. The movies of Hitchcock.

8. Confirmation of the Big Bang theory.

9. American & British popular music, 1955-1975.

10. Discovery that impotence has a biological not psychological cause.

Put string theory near the top of the list, if the theory holds up in another 200 years.