posted on Apr, 4 2006 @ 08:44 AM
The wage statistics aren't taking the ridiculous levels of inflation and currency devaluation into consideration. At least in Canada, a dollar from
1900 has a value of about 6 cents now.
The amount of inventions is just absolutely mind-boggling in the past 100 years. Especially electricity. Turn off all the electricity in your house,
and try to do something, anything. You will be bored out of your mind in about 5 minutes, unable to cook or entertain yourself. Sometimes I wish we
weren't so ridiculously dependant on electricity, but I guess that's how things go. I'm sure glad we have it, anyway
. So yeah, we've gone to
living in log cabins and riding horses, to living in skyscrapers the size of mountains and travelling in OUTER SPACE (depending if you believe in the
moon landing or not
).
I have two theories, either that we have hit the plateau in "revolutionary new growth", and we will just start to make small improvements, or else
the next 100 years are going to be so ridiculous that you can't even begin to imagine the kinds of things that are goin to be done and invented. I'm
very surprised that old people aren't in a sense of techno-shock from all of the new stuff going on around them. Well, I guess many of them probably
are.
And yeah, my childhood was also my favourite part of my life. Especially grades 7/8. It's all gone downhill from there. Although I guess I have
lived in some of the best times ever. All this crazy technology, essentially no wars (at least not affecting Canada), and I can honestly say I have
never been hungry. Came right after that big recession in the 80's, and everything has been pretty good since
.
[edit on 4-4-2006 by Yarcofin]