...or at least a swift kick in the head.
There have been a
great deal of phenomenal discoveries in the past
ten-thousand or so years, since the
human realized it could
kill animals for food. There was
fire,
the wheel,
architecture,
iron and steel, the
steam engine,
Pasteurization, the motor car, the
airplane, the
telephone, the calculator, the computer, the
cell phone, and
console games. But have we found or invented anything to
really take us to the next
level?
No.
We are still bound to our immediate
spacial area; we haven't met (or been introduced to) another
advanced life-form. We haven't found a cure for
cancer or for
AIDS;
nanobots are still too expiremental to be considered a reality. We still leave our
children a world which is worse than the way we found it; the forests are still going away. Our
atmosphere is still disentegrating; cars still exist. Teachers are still paid less than garbagemen;
the homeless still die in the streets...
The title of this node was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey.