The only real historical event in my lifetime

Post #111,612 by mhuber 7/27/03 12:05:56 AM Reply	The only real historical event in my lifetime That other crap, well, maybe 1/10 of history nuts can tell you what the 100 Years War was about. And I'm not that 1. The Cold War will be similarly remembered. The Civil Rights advances have already reached the "Well, DUH!" phase - people have already forgotten that things were once far, far worse. It isn't so much an accomplishment (for a nation - for those individuals involved, is is a great acheivement) as a reduction in stupidity, no more to be bragged about than washing hands between surgery on different patients. Again - that's on the large scale - the individuals involved have plenty to brag about, just like the heroic (I'm not being sarcastic) surgeons who pioneered the hand-washing movement. Computers? I'd say refrigerators beat them all to hell in significance. And I love computers, at least part of the time. But on that day, people walked on land that wasn't the home world. That will be in history books - more importantly, that will be in the chapter that people who aren't historians read, not just used for footnotes - for a thousand years, if there is anyone to read them. The History 101 syllabus will have two items under the 20'th Century heading: 1) Hiroshima, 2) The Moon. And that's in chronological order, not by importance. ---- Sometime you the windshield, sometime you the bug, sometime you the driver you turn on the windshield washer you keep going.
Post #111,684 by Ashton 7/28/03 5:13:42 AM Reply	Fridge.. safety pin.. then silly adding machines & cubicles.
Post #111,900 by Arkadiy 7/29/03 4:55:11 PM Reply	Bull Computers are on par with Hiroshima. The whole world is nothing but energy plus infomation. Atomic energy is awesome. But what controls information? And, the history will remember 20th centure for Start of Space Exploits. But Apollo will be a second-level bullet item, right after first satellite and first mannned space flight. -- Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them. --Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Post #111,946 by Silverlock 7/29/03 10:02:33 PM Reply	Nope The major turning points in the progress of our species number 4. They are: fire, agriculture, industry, information. Just because we happen to be alive during a new species level revolution doesn't make it less significant. You are currently living in the time that will be considered the cusp of "the new age" Believe me, I'm a prophet. ----------------------------------------- [link\|http://www.talion.com/questionw.html\|?W] Where were you in 72?
Post #112,477 by mhuber 8/1/03 10:30:52 PM Reply	Information is old Computer is just an upgrade on papyrus. ---- Sometime you the windshield, sometime you the bug, sometime you the driver you turn on the windshield washer you keep going.
Post #112,481 by JayMehaffey 8/1/03 11:18:55 PM Reply	Two independent questions What was really important and what history books will record are two seperate questions. History books over emphasize dramtic events that can be dated exactly. The first nuke, the first space walk, these are the sorts of things that will get high press. The stuff that happened in the background, like sanitation and civil rights, will be ignored. Too many dates of little events, and too much that future generations will take for granted. Heck, we take clean water and decent sewage for granted today. Sanitation probably did more to extend the average life span then anything else, including antibiotics. Jay

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