In approximately the past 100 to 150 years Humanity has advanced to the point at which modern technology would look like magic to our ancestors. From cell phones to air travel to the Internet, if the dumbest of us could go back in time to the year 1900 or beyond we would look like wizards. How is that possible?
I know Moore's law states that microchip technology will grow exponentially, but has this been the case for other technologies? Apparently not, because cars have not really advanced much since their advent and our means of transportation is as important as any other technology. Imagine having to choose between having a laptop or having a car at home. Even if your car was built prior to 1999, if it still runs, it's more important than the high end computer upon which you watch Netflix. Setting aside the question as to why cars still get less than 50 miles per gallon, why have other technologies advanced so fast in such a short period of time?
To quantify the speed at which Humanity has advanced, let's create a timeline of discovery... A very loose but relevant timeline. Modern man has existed in its current form for approximately 200,000 years. If we go millennium by millennium however, the advancement made every thousand years would not appear as magical. The hunters and gatherings from the year 10,000 B.C. would be fascinated by the technology of the hunters and gatherers from the year 9,900 B.C. but they would not think them wizards. This however would not be so for the people alive in the year 1900 AD.. For those living at the turn of the 19th century. Those people might think you trapped their souls in your cell phone. Those people might wonder how you got the tiny actor in the flat box hanging on your wall. Those people might question the validity of voices coming out of handheld devices or a refrigerator that speaks to them.
And to believe that all of the advances we've seen in the past 100 plus years, all we need to is believe that they all occurred organically in 0.075 percent of the time upon which modern man has existed. I arrived at that small number by calculating modern man's time on Earth (approximately 200,000 years) versus the leaps in technology over the past 150 years. The equation is as follows:
150 (years of advancements) x 100 (percent) ÷ 200,000 (years of modern man's existence) = 0.075 (percent)
So, we are to believe that, for less than 0.08 percent of our time on Earth we' be naturally advanced from farmers to computer operators. We've gone from Buffalo Bill to the Kardashians and this all feels organic to you?
There is something off putting about this story. Objectively, it doesn't add up. There had to be some catalyst that sparked such explosive growth in such a relatively small timeframe. Think about the next 150 years. Given how much we've advanced from the 1900s to today, Humanity will have had to discover time travel for us to be as amazed. What would be the technological advancement that appeared as if by magic to you? Time travel might not even do it for me. It might require something like inter-dimensional travel to look like wizards to me, but let's stick to time travel.
So, someone comes back from the year 2174 and just appears seemingly out of thin air before me in 2024, would that seem like a natural progression? I don't think so. I think I would wonder where the technology for such a feat came from, but that's just me be skeptical, right?
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In "Solutions...", I provide the means for readers to disseminate information as provided by their news sources of choice, their elected officials, and any other authority they choose to follow. The book also offers a means to hold their leaders up, not just to a higher standard than is currently accepted but to one that would improve their lives and the lives of those for whom they care.
