For lack of a better catagory I used this one it seemed the best.
If you really look at all the changes the we as, "civilized people," have gone through in the last 100 years it is amazing.
In one life time, (People can live 100 years)
1906 a car was a new invention.
People were still using horse and wagons, and still using an out house. They still used a wood burning cook stove and many of them still pumped water from a well.
Just 38 years later "1944" Einstein makes the Nuclear bomb.
Then 63 years later (well within a normal life time) 1969
Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon.
How did we go from 1000's of years with no development to the moon in 63 years?
1980's Star Wars (not the movie) Laser satalites in orbit
Today people have computers in their homes linking the entire world together and all the knowledge it shares.
What was it that changed and made people more inventive?
How did we get here so fast?
AND
Where are we going to?
2006-06-21 08:44:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
we always ask lots of questions and try to answer them thats why we are where we are:)
yeah good question, I dont know but we all see it together :)
2006-06-21 08:53:23 · answer #1 · answered by nini 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you term "inventive."
If you count phamaceuticals, most had already been "invented" from the dawn of time. Pharmaceutical companies STILL mine indigeneous cultures for Pharmatech, see the movie Serpent and the Rainbow.
We have not domesticated any NEW plants or animals since indigeneous peoples domesticated them 12000 years ago.
The first helicopter was invented in China a few thousand years ago, as well as the first hanglider. Leonardo Da Vinci developed many of the ideas we "invented" today.
What has changed is communication, education, and collaboration.
For MOST of recorded time, education was the province of rulers and priests. The American Revolution, French Revolution, etc, broadened literacy and writing to include everyone.
Printing presses allowed communication across time and space, Telegraphs further increased communication, Electric Lighting increased the amount of time people could read, write, and work.
Each invention builds upon past work, and the more people know and communicate, the more chances there are that someone can build upon the foundation.
Does this make sense?
The answer is twofold.
#1, you have neglected innovation in the organic/biological world.
#2, recent innovations in the inorganic world are due to advances in education and communication.
2006-06-21 09:14:14 · answer #2 · answered by snksraven 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a very good question and I've often wondered about it myself. I've always thought that the excelerated level of invention has to do with the more knowledge you have the more you can gain. Kind of like a snow ball effect.
Some people believe that an alien space craft landed out west in the 1940's and the US recovered the aircraft and studied them. I think it's called Area 51? But some people believe that the explosion of computer technology came from the study of those aircrafts. I have never been sure if I believe this or not.
2006-06-21 12:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by PDY 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an exponential increase - once someone realizes something is possible, others break into that and extend the barriers even further. Imagine drawing a line that starts straight across. It gradually curves upwards, then eventually over time (and rather quickly) it is now pointing straight upwards, no longer curving. That is what human progression has been like.
As long as there are those who continue to push the limits of our existence, we will always have this evolution.
Where are we going to? The stars!
2006-06-21 08:53:05 · answer #4 · answered by Fun and Games 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe mankind is going through a higher level of consciousness after sleeping for almost a thousand years - the Dark Ages.
Or is there is an external 'influence' as one post has already suggested?
Whatever the reason, we did progress tremendously in a very short time although at the cost of our precious environment.
2006-06-23 08:49:57 · answer #5 · answered by HeavenlyBull 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science changes due to the combined actions of individuals and groups armed with facts and responsive to economic needs.
2006-06-21 09:37:15 · answer #6 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way climate changing,and life style ,technology and...ETC.
changing and changed.there fore (things!) changing too.
2006-06-24 01:00:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only thing we can count on in life is that things will change
2006-06-21 08:53:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the industrial revolution didn't hurt
2006-06-25 16:12:19 · answer #9 · answered by Bob Gnome 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋