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My personally theory is, that this development has been going on for thousands of years. As we find better ways to deliver messages, e.g. horses, pigeons, teleg
by FrojoS 13y ago
My personally theory is, that this development has been going on for thousands of years. As we find better ways to deliver messages, e.g. horses, pigeons, telegraph, telephone, eMail, twitter, our time horizon has apparently been shrinking accordingly. Think about the cathedrals which took hundreds of years to build. The mindset that was required for such undertakings seems almost alien now.
- marcofloriano 13y agoFor sure, it´s a eternal need of humankind to make things faster. In some ways, it can be good. But in other ones, it´s very bad. So our challenge right now is too start making better choices about what we should make faster and what we should make slower. Building a bridge or finding the cure for the cancer needs to be faster. But talking with your son, chilling out and hanging out with friends?
- 6d0debc071 13y agoThe person making the decision didn't actually have to work on the thing for a hundred years. If you think of them buying their way into heaven - or making a show of how religious they were - then it's really just a long-term insurance scheme that someone else is going to go on to manage the complexities of for them. I'm not sure that's really any different to paying a pension company that manages part of it's liabilities via long-term bonds.
- AznHisoka 13y agoI think the development has gone on as people have moved to bigger cities, and increased their exposure to other human beings. In the old days, we only interacted with 10-20 people on a daily basis(your butcher, your barber, your few co-workers, etc). Now, living in large cities, we have interact/encounter with hundreds of random strangers everyday.