This was a tough one... I love Henson and Schulz. Being a Conservative, a Reagan comeback would please me. Anne Frank died young and tragically (unlike most of the others, who had long and pleasant lives).
But I'm enough of a geek to wonder what Tesla would do with today's knowledge and technology. Had to go for him.
I thought this would be tougher than it was. I started by eliminating all the entertainers, not that it wouldn't be interesting to at least have Lennon back. (PS - not including Reagan in the entertainers.) But there are so many others who have not had their chance. As for the pols, ditto; they were men and women of their time, and what they've handed down lives on in others, so we don't need the originals.
So it boils down to the odd couple, Tesla and Frank. Now, Nikolai was a whiz with that alternating current thingie, and deserves his props ... but it has to go to Anne Frank for one basic reason - she never really got the chance to show what she could do in life until after her death. Imagine her today as an older survivor...she'd shame all of us.
You know, I get why you'd want raise most of these guys from the dead. All of them except for Anne Frank. No disrespect to her memory, but the rest of these people DID something. They either created great art, were movers and shakers of the world stage, revolutionized society. Miss Frank however, is important purely through the circumstances of her tragic death. Her claim to fame was hiding from zee Germans and writing a journal about it. Sad, but in and of herself an important fulcrum of society.
I picked Anne Frank because the others had long-ish lives. She never had the opportunity to become much of anything, and that's the tragedy. Chances are she would have become just another person in the crowd, but she could have cured cancer or AIDS, could have become a prime minister of Israel, could have won the Nobel Prize for Literature or become a peace activist. We'll never know.
Indeed. And I feel bad about not picking Ms. Frank, even though the new being would not really be the same person, but the geek in me just can't resist: "Welcome, Mr. Tesla. I've taken the liberty of including in your active memory the complete archives of every major scientific and technical journal I could think of, as well as a complete annotated set of schematics for your new robot body. I'll leave you alone now, but please, if you invent a rocket car of some type, save one for me?"
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But I'm enough of a geek to wonder what Tesla would do with today's knowledge and technology. Had to go for him.
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So it boils down to the odd couple, Tesla and Frank. Now, Nikolai was a whiz with that alternating current thingie, and deserves his props ... but it has to go to Anne Frank for one basic reason - she never really got the chance to show what she could do in life until after her death. Imagine her today as an older survivor...she'd shame all of us.
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