Hi droid56,
I'm about to say something that might suprise you. I think technology hit a plateau a long time ago! I don't think technology has progressed that much, not over the last hundred and fifty years or so.
Back in the good old days, in the late 1800's and early 1900's there were huge advances in technology and ideas. But since then, technologically speaking, little as happened that is really new.
Of course back then the new technologies, or inventions, made a huge impact on society, and changed society to think as it does today, with the invention of the steam engine and internal combustion engine, machines, electricity, even the humble typewriter. But most of the 'new' inventions of today are mostly based on the 'new' technology that existed back then. So a motor car of today could be faster, more economical and more comfortable than a Model T Ford, but it's still a motor car. The technology as been refined.
Electronical gadgets are being created, but once again, bringing together already formed ideas and inventions, so your cell phone may have this, that and the other, but those other things already exist. The cell phone has just been refined. However you cannot ignore that the cell phone has to a certain point revolutionized the way we comunicate.
I think new sciences are to be admired, like seeing how genes work and how our DNA forms etc. That is the toughest part of advancing. Understanding the principles of how things work. Once we understand that we can break them down and create something new, but original.
Some of the most important inventions to come forward produced on a commercial scale has to be alternative fuels based on new rules of physics. Finding out ways to create energy that does not harm the environment, but apparently more importantly, the pockets of the actual fuel producing companies.
Scientists are still learning how time travel works and finding things much smaller than an atom (when I was a kid in school my teacher asked me what was smaller than an atom. I replied, half an atom!).
I think that if we look at civilization, sure technology seems to only have tangibly appeared over the last 200 years, but within that blip of activity, we seemed to have advanced not that much.
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by droid56
It's amazing how fast technology has progressed. I know you know what I am talking about.
But I don't understand why other aspects of our global society are progressing at a snail's pace. Wars, third world poverty, corruption in political and economic arenas. These things are still quite shameful.
Is it just that many humans are naturally negative, or is it possible that evil forces are leading us in this direction?
I think that people are ready to move in a positive direction, but humans and non-humans are doing everything they can to prevent this from happening.
What do you think?
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