how would you describe it?
2007-12-30 07:07:28 · 6 answers · asked by Friend 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This is more then a personal thing, how many different industries have we had and done away with for a new one in even the past 100 years?
2007-12-30 14:14:02 · update #1
Future Shock.
This is a term coined by Alvin Toffler in his famous book of 1970 in which a person has a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
2007-12-30 07:26:08 · answer #1 · answered by Theseus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Indeed until time stops and there is no movement.... I think not. Teilhard de Chardin was an evolutionary crank, but those looking for 'meta-realities' will always put him (among others) on a pedestal. If it were a universal phenomenon everyone would be reporting the same feeling, but people feel the rate of change, either personally or socially (even temporally perhaps) at different rates.
2007-12-30 10:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Law of Complexity and Consciousness. It was coined by the evolutionary theorist Teilhard de Chardin. What it states is basically that it took billions of years for the earth, millions for life, thousands for humanity, hundreds for technology, and it goes on.
He, along with others, states that we are approaching a singularity where we will merge with the Omega point, which is a gathering of the noosphere becoming one with God in his theory.
Ray Kurzweil says something of another phenomena: A Technological singularity, where as technology becomes even more complex, those items will become sentient and conscious and eventually we would merge with them. Scary isn't it
2007-12-30 07:19:17 · answer #3 · answered by elguapo_marco_2008@sbcglobal.net 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Your second responder got the name for it. I did not know about it but I think we are all conscious of it. I am glad there are great thinkers out there who have thought about this, such as yourself.
I think as individuals we are more aware how as we grow older how it seems years have flown by without a thought. For me it's 54 years years where I just blink and they have all been in my past.
I just content myself to being the best I can be to all people and leave it at that.
What we do in life echos in eternity.
2007-12-30 09:37:38 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
History in the making.
2007-12-30 07:10:35 · answer #5 · answered by knowitall 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes; it called getting old.
2007-12-30 07:38:43 · answer #6 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋