Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Why is our age so dumb?
If you think about it, most big discoveries in history and science were made in the ancient times. Isn't there still so much to find out about our world? Why have humans in this age been so crippled by knowledge? The modern age now has so much more resources and databases and machines that we can find out so much more stuff! So why have we not been able to find out anything? You would think that people so long ago would have been at less advantage to find answers to the world than us today. Has every question been found out? Of course not! Then why are modern humans at such a loss?
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I personally disagree with you. I think we've made plenty of discoveries. For example, doctors have made up an drug that can slow the effects of melanoma, a devastating skin cancer. And what about all these computers? And the vaccine? And flying cars (yes one has been made)? I totally disagree.
ReplyDeleteI agree with lily. I don't think our age is dumb. We have made plenty of worthy discoveries.
ReplyDeleteWell yes, the title was a little rash. But compared to discoveries about the world and mathematics ages ago, we look pretty bad. But do you think that if these great things hadn't been discovered long ago, would we have discovered them by now or would they still be a mystery?
ReplyDeleteI also disagree. So many great discoveries are being made nowadays, although I can agree that most EXTREMELY MAJOR ONES were in the olden days, like numbers and letters and all that stuff. Also, most of these people were old people.
ReplyDeleteI also disagree we've made more inventions in the past 100 years then we did in twice that in the olden times. As for major advancements, its simply because there is not much left to fix. Doctors are developing cures for diseases but no one hears about that much, we aren't in horrible conditions. We are living comfortably and safely now
ReplyDeleteI believe that there really is no limit to what a race, especially a race with our brainpower, can achieve.
ReplyDeleteI believe that everything has to be based on something else. For example, when man first discovered fire, we used that discovery as a base to make more and more discoveries, going from controlled fire to cooking fire to eventually boilers, burning gas to power cars and stoves, and many other reasons. Of course, in our time, we think finding fire was significant, it was one of the reasons we are still alive today. But when we first found it, presumably when lightning hit a tree, it wasn't significant, but when we began to build more and more using fire, it became incredibly significant because we could build so much off of it.
That's an interesting way to think of it. Something is not valuable because of what it is directly, it is valuable because of what we could build off of it, or use it for. For example, you start building a city with one brick. Without that brick, you don't have a city. But your WHOLE CITY is what you are remembered for inventing, because even though you discovered the brick to build it with, it's what you did WITH the brick that counts.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I don't believe we haven't made any discoveries. It may be true that many discoveries were made in the past, but those were the basics. Now we are refining and redoing what we have already discovered in the past, and continually testing its validity. Plus, we don't have these computers to find new information, we have them to search the old information we discovered in the past. We can use them to discover new things too, with theoretical models.
ReplyDeleteNot exactly what I meant, Sophie, but you're getting the point. I would say that its more like a pyramid turned upside down. The point, the bottom block, is fire, first discovered, found by lightning flashing from a tree. Everything-gas cookers, water heaters, incinerators-are closer to the top of the building. A building isn't usually built off of one brick, so I wouldn't find it to be the best example.
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