We all feel very lucky to belong to one of the revolutionary generation mankind has ever seen. We fall short of nothing. Right from the moment you wake-up in the morning to the time you get back to sleep, you take advantage of the present technology as much as you can like from using an automatic alarm when you wake up, drive thru's to have breakfast before you go to work, ipod for listening music while driving, cell-phone to be in contact with the world which also equipped with internet while going mobile, food delivery service for your lunch who charge you on your credit card, amazing night clubs for partying in the evening and micro-wave food when you get back home late at night. This is just what on average, anybody else does right now in this present world. And if i start talking about how advanced technology is used now a days it would be just like a school kid writing an essay on "Present day advanced technology". But thats not my point at all.
We think that we are the luckiest of the all the generations gone behind, Ofcourse, if we consider the development of human civilisation today and compare it to the one which was, lets say some 100 yrs ago, its an amazing development which grew exponentially. But did anyone some 100 yrs ago ever guessed or predicted the present day. Some say yes and some say no. But what if i ask was anyone lived comfortably. Answer would be an obvious "YES". Yeah every individual who lived some 100 yrs ago was comfortable with the facilities what they has got in their time, exclusive of people who suffered from wars, riots, diasters and attacks. Peole already knew how to build their Houses, lay Roads, have Transportation (Basic Transportation), form their Governments(USA, 1787), Politics, Journalism, Industries, Agriculture, Military, Electricity(1821) and also communication through Telephone(1876).
All the above mentioned, were just merely in budding stage but though people in the past felt proud of what they got and invented, in the same way as anyone who would feel proud in this present world. They were so much satified and comfortable with their inventions that, U.S patent office declared a statement in 1901, saying, "All that can be invented has already been invented". But if we look at this statement, it seems funny for us, as all the major discoveries and inventions in the history of mankind were after 1901. So, were people at that time ignorant, NO; innocent, NOT AT ALL. Its all about the time they lived in. Are we lucky as we are in this Post-Modern stage of technological development period ?, and Are they all Unlucky as they were born and were dead in Industrial-Revolution period itself ?. Let me say, hmm, certainly not.
Its because people who lived and died a 100 yrs ago don't even know something like an ifone would be existing in future. They were very much happy with their hugely built communication box, like Graham-Bell's telephone. Same with the other inventions. Though they have a vague idea about how the future in 100 yrs would be, they practically didnt experience it. We are the one who can experience what anyone would have ever dreamed some 100 yrs ago. So they were NOT unlucky at all.
If we consider them to be unlucky, even we are unlucky for sure, because experiencing the ultra-fast changes in current technology. We might not even guess how the future after 100 yrs would be. We still keep predicting about future every now and then, just like 19th century people predict about present. But who is going to really experience it. Its the people who live in future. So now are we unlucky? not for sure. Its the time we live and that is it. But observing the history and how the human civilisation is developing, we can readily accept that some really big events and major break through's are going to happen in future. We may still have chance to experience some of those since we are young. But what is out of our reach?, we are not going to worry about it, as we arent going to be alive by that time. So did the people in the past when they thought of present, so we do about the future.
Though you may have seen these videos, i'd like to attach it to my article, just because its very much related.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82S6ReXLNLE&feature=player_embedded
Iam waiting for a day in near future where I can book my reservation to fly on to mars for vacation.
All the above mentioned, were just merely in budding stage but though people in the past felt proud of what they got and invented, in the same way as anyone who would feel proud in this present world. They were so much satified and comfortable with their inventions that, U.S patent office declared a statement in 1901, saying, "All that can be invented has already been invented". But if we look at this statement, it seems funny for us, as all the major discoveries and inventions in the history of mankind were after 1901. So, were people at that time ignorant, NO; innocent, NOT AT ALL. Its all about the time they lived in. Are we lucky as we are in this Post-Modern stage of technological development period ?, and Are they all Unlucky as they were born and were dead in Industrial-Revolution period itself ?. Let me say, hmm, certainly not.
Its because people who lived and died a 100 yrs ago don't even know something like an ifone would be existing in future. They were very much happy with their hugely built communication box, like Graham-Bell's telephone. Same with the other inventions. Though they have a vague idea about how the future in 100 yrs would be, they practically didnt experience it. We are the one who can experience what anyone would have ever dreamed some 100 yrs ago. So they were NOT unlucky at all.
If we consider them to be unlucky, even we are unlucky for sure, because experiencing the ultra-fast changes in current technology. We might not even guess how the future after 100 yrs would be. We still keep predicting about future every now and then, just like 19th century people predict about present. But who is going to really experience it. Its the people who live in future. So now are we unlucky? not for sure. Its the time we live and that is it. But observing the history and how the human civilisation is developing, we can readily accept that some really big events and major break through's are going to happen in future. We may still have chance to experience some of those since we are young. But what is out of our reach?, we are not going to worry about it, as we arent going to be alive by that time. So did the people in the past when they thought of present, so we do about the future.
Though you may have seen these videos, i'd like to attach it to my article, just because its very much related.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82S6ReXLNLE&feature=player_embedded
Iam waiting for a day in near future where I can book my reservation to fly on to mars for vacation.
keep it up.....
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