Sometimes I think of history as a painting that mankind has been working on for centuries. As a painter paints, he looks for parts that need touching up, touches those parts up, and then looks for another part that needs touching up. At least that's how I would do it. But when you touch up the painting, I think it looks weird to focus too much on touching up one part so much more than all the other parts as you progress. Sort of like your painting looks unbalanced if while you're painting the Mona Lisa, you spend ten minutes on the ear, ten minutes on the mouth, and then focus too much on the left eye for the next several hours of the painting before going back to spending ten minutes on everything else. Even though you're not done, what you've done so far looks kind of strange.
As I look at where we are now in history, I feel like we've spent the last 100 years touching up technology, and that's great because it needed a lot of touching up, but I think probably 30 years from now or so we'll want to move on to something else or else our painting will look too unbalanced. Right now there are several other things I think we could spend more time touching up to make our painting in progress look more balanced. We definitely need to get better at leading our young people down a better path, where there aren't near as many gang wars over drugs and other stupid stuff. Also we need to focus on reducing our bureaucracy. It's ridiculous that we need to fill out so much paperwork to do anything. People are so willing to sue over nothing. I'm not sure how much technology can help to solve these two problems. And while I won't argue against its progression (since even touched up parts of a painting can always use extra detail), I will argue for the progression of other things over technology and suggest that they be our main focus in the future, things that haven't been touched up in a while.
As I look at where we are now in history, I feel like we've spent the last 100 years touching up technology, and that's great because it needed a lot of touching up, but I think probably 30 years from now or so we'll want to move on to something else or else our painting will look too unbalanced. Right now there are several other things I think we could spend more time touching up to make our painting in progress look more balanced. We definitely need to get better at leading our young people down a better path, where there aren't near as many gang wars over drugs and other stupid stuff. Also we need to focus on reducing our bureaucracy. It's ridiculous that we need to fill out so much paperwork to do anything. People are so willing to sue over nothing. I'm not sure how much technology can help to solve these two problems. And while I won't argue against its progression (since even touched up parts of a painting can always use extra detail), I will argue for the progression of other things over technology and suggest that they be our main focus in the future, things that haven't been touched up in a while.