and earlier, back as far as old news clips go and wondered how people and the world could ever have been like that? Do you find the world "gets stranger and stranger" the further back you go, as if you have stumbled into a temporal looking-glass paradox as Lewis Carroll might have imagined? And if the 1890's seem foreign to us, how much more strange and bizarre the 1680s or 1340s? Now ask yourself what the significance of this phenomenon is. It's not just technology that changes. People do too and the way they occupy their space and their time. Even allowing for differences in motion photography people in the 1920s seemed to move differently than now. Now speculate on how we will be viewed 25, 50, 100 years hence. Will we been seen as primitive and undeveloped as many of the people in even the not so distant newsreels seem to us now? Will a time traveler from 2106 visiting the present exclaim after a day or two, "Beam me up, Scottie, they're no intelligent life forms down here."
2006-11-09 03:01:27 · 11 answers · asked by Seeker 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
yes, i've seen the news reels. i've lived the last 54 years of it. here's a tip. people do the best (or worst) they can with what they've got. you know what? i see it the other way round. people seem stranger to me all the time. will the people of a hundred years from now even be recognizable to us? i doubt it!...people weren't less intelligent a hundred years ago, they just had less, of everything! go back and look at the art and architecture of 500 yrs back, 1000 yrs back, 2000 yrs back. they had to do all their own thinking back then, they didn't have computers or calculaters. they were amazing!
2006-11-09 09:10:52 · answer #1 · answered by sheepherder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See, I think it's just the opposite, as time goes on, people get stranger and stranger.
The news today is a lot weirder than any Stephen King book ever written.
It's a strange, strange world!
2006-11-09 03:06:07 · answer #2 · answered by Cindy S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and yes. When I was a child I sat with my Great gran and she told me of all the things she had seen in her life, all the changes, and it was truly amazing. She was born in 1899. If I live to see my great grand kids I am sure the things I can tell them of my life will be equally foreign, yet intriguing to them as well.
2006-11-09 03:11:38 · answer #3 · answered by AsianPersuasion :) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes many times. I watch more older things then new.
2006-11-09 15:02:41 · answer #4 · answered by ▒Яenée▒ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes l have, and they are fascinating to watch.
2006-11-09 04:35:13 · answer #5 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very interesting thoughts you have - i really hadn't thought of it at all - im definately going to look into it - thanks for a great question.
2006-11-09 03:07:17 · answer #6 · answered by Jana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope
2006-11-09 03:02:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true and they might!
2006-11-09 03:06:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have not, but I will..
2006-11-09 03:23:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, but I would LOVE to.
2006-11-09 03:03:15 · answer #10 · answered by kitten lover3 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋