...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.