What Inventors And Scientists Did 100 Years Ago
This is something I wrote when 2010 just started. It’s mostly a draft, but I think it’s enough for the moment. I’m posting it now or I’ll never do it.
2010. This year looks so Sci-Fi when you write it down. Just try it for a few times. Write 2010, 2010, 2010. Now, if you lived sometime around the 40s-50s or even the 60s, you would’ve imagined that in 2010 flying cars or those flying personal shuttles like the Jetsons had would exist.
So, what do we have now? We’re not making any real progresses. We’ve made only really small steps, steps that seem to show up mostly online. We’re living our lives connected, online, sharing everything. We *HAVE* to be connected. Just that and nothing else.
Exactly 100 years ago, in 1910, Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture. You can have a look here. Chemotherapy was born in the same year. Wow, two major things at the beginning of a century. Interesting, isn’t it? 
These are just two things that happened 100 years ago. We’re in 2010 and we get excited when Google launches Google Buzz or when Steve Jobs presents the iPad. We surely are on the wrong track. Let’s hope that this decade will bring its geniuses up front.
posted: 10 February 12
under: Personal
I don’t think geniuses will just pop up so fast. I don’t think because there are too many stupid ppl, the geniuses can’t just pop up, they are suffocated and they kinda lose hope.
Like you :).
Listen…In the first two paragraphs I’m totally agree with you.I saw SF series movies that talked about things and facts in years like 2002, for example, that would have never been happening.
However, this conception we have is because we tend to rely only on the material evolution, neglecting spiritual evolving. As you said, we do not need to get always on line connected, because by doing that we are renouncing little by little to the concept that says: “No man is an island.” People don’t talk as much as it needed and I mean real discussions.
As for the inventions…I don’t wanna play the nationalist kind (though loving isn’t country isn’t a sin, even if it’s named Romania), but I would’ve liked reading about a Romanian inventor, too, in your article. ;)
“The present is past of the future.”
@iOAN you’re right.
Maybe somewhere in the world there is a genius planning right now something that will blow us away in 20-30 years.
I think it would be interesting to find out how often something really huge is discovered/invented. Maybe it has to pass some hundreds years in order to make a leap in technology.
On the other hand it may be true that the new ways of “socializing” prevent us from pursuing great goals and actually make us lose time. This is especially true for us, the people from the online industry.