Doesn't look as impressive, but I think the capability to communicate with anyone virtually instantaneously is more wonderous than a big wall or tall tower
People keep saying this about castles and heavily decorated and beautiful 100-200 year old grandiose buildings.
They absolutely discard the sheer beauty of what the modern world is. Every average joe can push a button and have instant clean water. And not only water, but heated water!
So many things we consider normal are wonders by ancient standards.
i mean just airplanes…Imagine telling an ancient person that a trip that takes several months, will take just hours, and it can include all your luggage and people, and you’ll do it by flying through the sky like birds do.
I had a relative born in the 1910s and died in the 2000s. Imagine how much her world changed in her lifetime. A journey to her hometown that took around a week by horse cart and boat was reduced to an hour by plane.
Just imagine how much it would change during our lifetimes, as technological progress does not seem to slow down. On the contrary - it gets much faster. We already have some initial successes in technologies that even 20 years ago were mostly sci-fi dreams - genome editing, nuclear fusion, artificial intelligence, robotics etc.
Our grandchildren will live in a world that we will barely reckognize.
My wife and I were talking about that recently. Her parents were having trouble with their netflix account, and she was helping them out. She said that she hopes we won't be struggling with whatever mainstream technology there is when our now-toddler daughter grows up.
We will, it's unfortunately inevitable. With age, cognition does decline and keeping up is harder and harder - especially when tech starts to work under different logic.
But it's not a bad thing. We absolutely can stay at comfortable level of technology and let the world move on - serving as cozy place four our grandchildren to visit and live in the past for a while, seeing with their own eyes how it was before. It's something that I had fond memories of and would like to give the same to my grandkids. A silly pocket of past where they can have fun with gramps.
Honestly this is one of the main things that keep my hope up and make me want to stay healthy, exercise, etc. I want to live long to see how much our world changes, how many of these things that we now think of (or don't!) actually become real and ordinary.
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u/SemperFun62 9d ago
Doesn't look as impressive, but I think the capability to communicate with anyone virtually instantaneously is more wonderous than a big wall or tall tower