There are always individuals with vision to our benefit, but the bulk of people are trapped in the time they were born. Human beings existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years, it's just been the last few where true fundamental change has happened. We've had thousands, tens of thousands of years of evolutionary conditioning of existing singularly in our own time, I don't believe that is an easy thing to drop from our genes.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote: > A little less of your ego and you might actually consider what I'm saying. >> We, you and I have no idea what technology will be here in a decade, two >> decades, longer..it is presumptuous to assume you are just smarter than >> the >> previous generations and will just grok it. >> > > Who could have imagined such things in the past? > > Who could have imagined flying machines before the 20th century? Leonardo > da Vinci, 15th century AD, http://www.flyingmachines.org/. Daedalus, after > he designed the labyrinth for Minos [Greek Mythology, ~1200 BC]; Abbas Ibn > Firnas, Córdoba, Spain, 8th century. > > Who could have imagined video telephones and hand held wireless phones > before personal computers and cell phones? Bell Labs, 1930; Chester Gould's > Dick Tracy and his wristwatch phone, 1930s. > > Who could have imagined, invented or built computers before the 20th > century? The Anthikera mechanism was invented and used in Greece, ~150 BC; > Charles Babbage, 1820s, 1830s. > > A little less of your ego and a lot more imagination, and studying history, > and you wouldn't be so clueless about the past and future of technology. > When do you expect to see working models of organic computers? Human-like > androids or cyborgs? How will astronauts be able to return to Earth from > Mars after being exposed to cosmic radiation? When will cellular networks be > available in the US as ubiquitously as in Europe and east Asia, or as fast > and cheap? Or will 4G eventually be free, as in part of the commons? Will > PCs disappear soon or evolve into something better and easier to use? More > predictions... > > Betty > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
