{"id":1785,"date":"2013-08-22T22:49:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T02:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2013-08-23T19:47:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T23:47:16","slug":"why-are-we-stuck-with-mediocre-progress-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2013\/why-are-we-stuck-with-mediocre-progress-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we stuck with mediocre progress in the 21st century?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My brother and I were debating progress. I am quite frustrated that technological innovation in this millennium seems so stalled. Sure we’ve had the PC laptop cellphone tablet and smart phone, wiring us all together, and they’re innovative and great. But they’re basically just consumptive devices we use to shovel sensationalized images and sounds into our orifices to stimulate our ever-dulled senses. <\/p>\n

Great innovators of the past brought us philosophy, plumbing, democracy, unlimited food, equality, the weekend, space travel, a leisure society, and so many paradigm shifts that jumped us forward in massive leaps. We are long long overdue for the next.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we are mired in the early stage of the information age. We drown in it every day. We spend many of them just caught up in the torrential flood of information with our jaws agape.<\/p>\n

Perhaps cycles are required. Perhaps it is the age of the right-wing redneck, pushing progress backwards in hopes that he can consume and destroy a lion’s share of resources just because his great grandfather did. That age will certainly not last too long before it implodes on itself.<\/p>\n

Perhaps there are too many of us, and we’ve come so far that any one of us would have to spend a lifetime just to become an expert on the existing knowledge in a specific area, with very little chance to extend it.<\/p>\n

But I still believe each of us should try to contribute. Our individual passion is our greatest strength.<\/p>\n

Here’s an awkward debate on the subject<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Mark Shuttleworth says it right: “Individuals are innovators”!!! He’s got it! You have to be a crazy, obsessive, arrogant, megalomaniacal wacko and drive well past where any reasonable group of people would go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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