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It's amazing how we have forgotten that until relatively recently, the average person's "world" consisted of a 10 mile radius around their village. It's much ea
by vidanay 6y ago
It's amazing how we have forgotten that until relatively recently, the average person's "world" consisted of a 10 mile radius around their village. It's much easier to comprehend that world than the modern world - of course, that's until some invaders come over the hill or sea that you've always wondered "what's over there?"
- newsbinator 6y agoThere was a time, not long ago, when a person could wonder about something that is well understood, try for an hour to get the answer, fail, and give up. Now with every passing month the set of known things that are hard to find out gets smaller and smaller. Or even the set of speculative things. You want to know how a warp drive might work? There's a Youtube video for that. You want to know what that Youtube video about how warp drive might work means? There's a Youtube video for that too.
- vidanay 6y agoThat was me in elementary school trying to do a research report at the crappy local 1970's era library.
- mikem170 6y agoThe problem isn't that the average person can't understand all of the modern world, the problem is that them and the politicians they elect and the experts they count on can't understand it well enough to avoid really large mistakes in interconnected systems that can affect everyone.