I'll be honest, I cheated. This post is clipped from my blog, but I just really like this entry and think there's a lot of discussing that can be done with it.

I'd like to jump right in and talk about our generation, the age we live in. They say this is the information age, and it really is. Never before in history has it been this easy to get whatever information you need. Think about it, you're writing an essay and you need some sort of statistic. All you have to do is hit up google and type in a few keywords, press the enter key on your keyboard, and boom. Need to know when some famous figure died? Just hit up wikipedia and you're there in no time. A hundred years ago this would have been completely unthought of. Two hundred years ago you would have been killed for thinking such dark thoughts!

I was surfing a little site known as youtube the other day. I heard one young youtuber say an interesting but true phrase, I don't remember the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of "at the rate we're going, we're going to make the renaissance look like the dark ages." Think about how true that is. In the last one hundred years of human existence we've invented so much new stuff that it's almost impossible to believe. Do you realize that pretty much every middle-class home in the US has a personal computer with an internet connection? Do you realize that now, more then ever, you're connected to every other human being in the world?

In April of 1860, the United States was introduced to the Pony Express, and were now connected more then ever to each and every other person in the country. In 1985, Apple Computers inc. (now simply Apple, inc.) introduced the Macintosh, a revolution in personal computing. with the personal computer soon came the internet, and email. People were now connected to each other in unimaginable ways. They could send photos of themselves, stories of their lives, and even home movies to their relatives, friends, and complete strangers should they so desire. It's an amazing thing. It's insanely great, if you will.

So if this is the information age, if this is the peak of human existence, what's going to happen in the next one hundred years? We've already done so much, more then anyone could ever imagine. Da Vinci himself would surely suffer a heart attack if he saw what we have done with the world technologically, how advanced we are now. But imagine what we'll be doing in a hundred years. Imagine the capabilities of personal computers then, the next step of email, the next generation will surely put our generation to shame much like we've put the previous generation to shame technologically.

But until then, we are the information age. We are the peak of human existence. Give yourselves a pat on the back, you're alive during one of the most exciting and interesting time periods in human history. I don't know about you, but i can't wait to see what the future holds for us.

So that's my opinion. What do you think? Is this the information age? If so, what will the world be like in one hundred years or so? Opinions are more then welcome.

I'd rather live one hundred years in the future, but knowing that as I type this there is someone a hundred years in the future looking at the finished product of the post, knowing everything I've said or done on this forum, knowing where I've went on ForumStyles, and all of InvisionFree. Will I go to IF Admin eventually? Time will tell, but those looking back already know. Here I am alive, watching Fullmetal Alchemist on Adult Swim, and someone far off in the future is reading this very post thinking about this text. It is a very amazing thought to think that if nothing goes wrong, everything I say on this site will outlast me. Or, I'm already dead. Assuming everything goes smoothly, I probably have a post count of 300,000 or more in the future. But there is no way I'm even going to dream of how I will evolve. Looking back on things I've done in the internet in just the past few years, to say 2002, it amazes me how different I am now than then. I don't want to guess the future, or the present, because some guy out there will be laughing at me when I get it wrong, because there is no way to guess it right.

But I hardly think you can say this is the peak of human evolution, the peak of human evolution will be when we can do interstellar travel, develop free energy, and when we have a B- grade president as opposed to D average president. Man, that seems near impossible, but it'll happen eventually.

It's unbelievable that we all take the technology we have for granted. I mean, people a hundred years ago didn't even dream or conceptualize thousands of the inventions we incorporate in our lives everyday.

Society in general is constantly unsatisfied with what is now and this pushes us to strive for what is supposed to satisfy our needs yet as soon as this object comes out people will want something better. It's a never-ending omnivorous hunger that will not be eased by any means.

I'm happy with living now. we have life easy. dont need to do much to survive. and i know we are all still alive now. lol 100 years a lot could happen.
-Nc