re: Well, it has to slow eventually, because at some point it becomes the economy (viz automobiles earlier this century).
I don't think your analogy is reasonable, because technology--in high tech and in science--is constantly revolutionizing the world, and by feeding on that revolution, requires ever more innovation. It's creating and recreating the world as we know it, and I don't even think we can envision where it will go. Today, getting my haircut, I sat and had a conversation with a woman in her 70s who had a portable wireless tiny computer and was checking her stocks on it. Cars stay cars--but technology morphs, creating new needs and new ways to fulfill them. This is akin to man first figuring out about language, rather than just creating pictures on caves. This is, inf act, a new language.
Well, I know that was a bit rah-rah but I think it's true and those who don't participate are losing out on something exciting (and also income-generating)
Jill |
