Thursday, June 23, 2011

Are we as advanced as we think?

By Alexis Wright


When it comes to technology, are we really as advanced as many people would have us believe? We've advanced a lot in about 5 or 10 years, but should we have have been to this point a long time ago?

Much debate is surrounded around how old the earth is and how long human beings have been walking it, but if man has been on earth for millions of years, you could say we should be more technologically advanced than we are.

I love the history of technology and it's great to watch it unfold in front of our lives. I love the story of the Wright Brothers inventing the first plane, Benjamin Franklin flying the kite in the storm and I'd love to see what those things lead to in about 100 years from now.

Recent technology advancements include small electronic droid spies, batteries along train tracks to save and store energy for the subway and many more. These are pretty cool.

I think it'll be great to see where technology takes is in the future. Will robots fight our wars and drive our cars?

When it comes to technology, what are some of the things you're waiting for that we currently don't have but might one day have in the future? Maybe one day we'll have flying cars, or a holodeck along with other technological advances found in the hit sci-fi TV sho Star Trek.

Chances are, these things will never happen, at least not in our lifetime, but people probably once said that of airplanes, cars, radios and TVs.

These technological advances helped pave the way for things that came later. Old-fashioned phoneds paved the way for today's cell phones. The Wright Brothers' first plane helped pave the way for jets and other aircrafts throughout history and the black-and-white TV paved the way for HD and 3D flat screen TVs.

The question still remains, what will today's technology lead to, and should we be further than we are?




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