Technology

Earth has gone through a lot.


Right now, you are reading my blog online. Think of how many inventions and innovations it took for that simple sentence to be a fact. The Internet has not been in existence forever. In fact, it hasn't been existence for very long at all - not even 30 years (for public use, at least - its development started quite some time before the 80's). Think of a time long long ago when technology was a distant dream. No internet. No computers. No cars. No skyscrapers. No jet planes. No cell phones. No telephones. No television, no news, no weapons, no tools, no written language.... And certainly no blogs. In its early years, life on earth consisted of what today's standards would be effectively nothing.


The concept of something "natural" is debatable. Pretty much everything man-made can be dismissed as unnatural. But on the other hand, don't you think it's natural for people to take showers? Showers didn't always exist. Don't you think it's natural for people to play sports? Those didn't always exist. So many things today would be considered by an early human as unnatural, but at the same time, it makes sense for some things to be done on a day-to-day basis. So what makes things natural?


Have you ever thought hard about what a "car" is? Humans have developed a means for personal transportation with which they can go over 100 miles per hour (which I don't endorse) down stretches of paved earth for as long as their gas tank and wallet can let them. Now imagine something with me for a minute. Picture yourself riding in a car. Now, picture that, but without the car. Something along the lines of Wonder Woman in the invisible jet. You're a human, flying through space in complete control of where you're going. You were born into the body of an organism that, on average, can max out at maybe 15 miles per hour (for a short while), and now you are traveling 70 on a highway and dismissing it as normal. Doesn't sound very "natural" to me. Back when cars were owned only by the very wealthy, people often never left the state /country they were born in - for their entire lives. I just got home from my girlfriend's house in Connecticut (about an hour and a half drive away) at little cost to myself, and I'm not even 20 years old yet - still a lot of life left to live. Technology has allowed me to not only visit her in a timely manner with little inconvenience, but also to write about it for anyone to read here. And that was just a trip to Connecticut. I could go to any location on this planet that has an airport in a day. Unbelievable. 


I'm pretty grateful to have been born when I was. Internet, cellphones, access to information... Technology has been pretty kind to the modern day human. And with that, this post is complete. Time to get a drink... From my refrigerator, which keeps everything in it chilled to a temperature that I tell it to.