Howdy G-dog and the weekenders, (sounds like a blues band!), I hope the start of the big WE finds you all well and fighting fit 😎👍
Oh just one inmvention! Well...Uhm... Ugghhh.
I could very easily choose language, be it written, spoken or communicated via other means, that would be a reasonable expectation of one so verbose and bloody long-winded when it comes to sharing even the simplest concept or idea.
I guess (conducting this exchange here), I could also consider BTC, Hive or blockchain technology, but that's too easy. So I am gonna choose the almost inconceivable, magic thread that has drawn all of these things together and turbo-charged them all in a way I could never have foreseen a few short years ago even as a 16 year old, leaving school and setting out in to the big wide world.
THE INTERNET!
For better or for worse it has brought massive benefit to us all in many ways an...
Ah dammit, I changed my mind... It's the push up bra!!! 😁😎👍
The internet is definitely a good invention and has many benefits for humanity as well as many perils. It will be interesting to see how things shake out when the internet turns 50, 100, 200 years old. Will it age as well as the printing press has? One can only hope it doesn't get controlled as badly as the powers that shouldn't be want it to be!
Absolutely! The human mind can scarcely conceive of how things evolve in such a short space of time in this exponential age in which we live, it feels like quantum leaps are taking place daily. What will the future hold that seems utterly mind-blowing, right now?
The powers that 'definitely shouldn't be' do have a way of placing themselves squarely in the middle of anything that will further their oft' nefarious agenda of control, don't they? I hope that those of us who choose decentralised in as many ways as we can will lead the way in prohibiting this as 'our' technology evolves.
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ENGAGEtokens.The internet has certainly been impactful. It's seemed to change exponentially and change people with it. I find it interesting that there's a whole generation of people who can't conceive of a world without it, have never known it not to be.
It's a good choice and one I expected to see.
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Yes indeed, I think there is a certain amount of context in living through the pre-digital and post-digital age. I think there is perhaps a disconnect of just how life was such a few short years ago. Using a payphone with coins, a restrictive corded home telephone in just one room of the house (if you were lucky enough to have one!) watching snooker on a black and white portable TV and somehow always being able to discern which were the different coloured balls, sending a hand-written letter, I miss those a lot, licking the back of the queens head, I mean a stamp of-course!
To have conceived of all this when I was a teen would have seemed miraculous.
It's a brave new world and, I'll be honest, not one I like. I'm a simple guy, not all that smart, and value simple things. I'd be happy to retreat from the world.
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