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How legacies are built, from HKSTP’s tech innovation to culinary fusions and Nancy Kwan’s Hollywood impact.
How is a legacy defined?
Of the many profound, poetic and compelling words that far more eloquent scribes have strung together to capture that notion and its palpable impact, perhaps American songwriter, actor, filmmaker and librettist Lin-Manuel Miranda summed it up best when he penned the following lines, for his hit musical Hamilton: “It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me.”
Legacy is intertwined with that which cannot be bought, cannot be forced and cannot be artificially generated: time. Except, in some cases, there is an opportunity to be part of history in the making and play a pivotal role in shaping the narrative as it’s being told.
Consider the rapid, exponential speed of technological development – most game-changing breakthroughs were achieved in the past couple of centuries, and the velocity is only accelerating. We went from digital computers the size of rooms to laptops thin enough to fit into a Manila envelope in a matter of decades.