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The irony of living at this time in human history

My writings are always from a technological/scientific perspective. So my understanding and comments on human lifestyle and civilization or on anything for that matter have NOTHING to do with philosophical, literary, societal, religious, poetic, political and economic changes that have happened to human civilization. It’s all about how science & technology changes our lives. As a matter of fact, science & technology bring change to societal, political, economic, literary, poetic, religious and philosophical ways of our lives, and not the other way round. Challenge me with data, statistics, logical analyses and concrete examples if I need to be proven wrong.  As I had written in my preceding blog, there’s only one human civilization on this planet (as far as history goes) and so there’s only a singular path of progress from its dawn till 2012 AD. Put it simply, human species have evolved in only one way, and there’s only one known planet which is earth where we know o

The pace of scientific and technological progress of humans

[I do not own rights to any of the images below. They are obtained by randomly 'Google' searching.] One thousand years ago, a horse would eat grass, reproduce and sleep, and would be used for pulling carriages or for riding. Even today, a horse would eat grass, reproduce and sleep but probably would not be used so much for pulling carriages or for riding except for special occasions like horse races, etc. However, human beings a thousand years ago and human beings today are unbelievably different in what we do and how we do. It’s a simple conclusion: on this planet, only human beings have used intelligence to progress and develop. Only human beings are the problem solving animals, and hence every other creature has remained the same over thousands of years (except for some evolution-induced physical changes). Only we, humans have been able to master all other animals and harness many forces and energy of nature to our own use. All these are ubiquitously known and it d