9 April 2012
If you were to go back 250 years and bring your ancestors forward a century, not much would've changed. There wouldn't be much of a shock to their system; there wouldn't be much people would have to explain. If you were however to bring back a relative from 100 years ago to the present day, my god! Where would you start?! Phones that allow you to speak to someone 12,000 miles away face-to-face; an entire record collection being stored on a tiny little box that fits into your back pocket and is never ever gonna shatter after 2 uses, like the cylinders of the day.
Then you have other forms of technology that even some people in today's society don't quite understand the point of: tablet computing, Internet televisions, ect, ect, ect... Speaking of the Internet, the amount of information that's on it can only be described as colossal! Then there's emails: more information is sent via email every day than is all the face-to-face conversation since the beginning of time. It's absolutely profound!
Then we have automobile and transportation technology. Nowadays the speed of light is something that is seen as the impossible benchmark. What we don't realise is that 100 years ago 100mph was just as impossible. A standard family car should be able to hit 120mph today; the fastest and greatest engineered car money can buy can hit 270mph! The way things have moved on in the past 100 is quite simply extraordinary - but I haven't even scratched the surface yet.
10 years ago we had a plane that could get us from London to New York in just over 3 hours - shorter than the time it would take you to drive from Birmingham to Newcastle. Even without the shining beacon in britain's torch that is Concorde traveling on the freezing edge of space at 1350mph, the planet earth is now on great big go-anywhere blue dot!
If technology's come that far in just 100 years, it really does big a question: where to go next?
What we have that's existing in today's world is what will be around for a while in my opinion. Technology will progress forward at a steady pace, just to put a fine edge on what we already have.
Imminent Perfection • Opuss № I