Never be silent!!

Posted by cowpuncher
Many people think modern technology makes us soooo much smarter than they were. In reality we're spoiled, blithering idiots compared to our ancestors.




I dont quite believe this to be true, the only thing that has changed is our priorities and focus (which are obviously currently in part quite debatable from an ethical point of view, they have brought us both positive and negative things) and this in turn was caused by a number of factors such as the development of new technologies and the endless possibilities they offer (a basic principle man has always strived for is for tasks/processes to be even more efficient and faster). With a world population of "only" 1.6 billion people 100 years ago (which is currently getting close to 7 billion) the demand for food was obviously lower and easy to cover, larger portions of land could be used moderately, in such a way re-using them was not a problem. Today we're facing the challenge that we're running out of fertile land to be able to cover the ever increasing demand of food and resources of a rapidly growing world population.
You cant possibly use standards of living conditions from 100 years ago to judge collective intelligence in our current society.
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