Just Thinking –
As we trudge our way through December, the short days, the cold, and the rain. Holiday parties, shopping and prepping for Christmas, so much going on in the world, we have so much to be thankful for. Some items in the news lately got me thinking about where we are right now and how much has changed and where we are going.
Henry Kissinger’s passing away last week at the age of 100, an individual that has been in the news for as long as I have been aware of politics. 100 years ago, when Mr. Kissinger was born, our world was such a different place, Things that we take for granted now were luxuries in 1924. A family car, a telephone, a radio were technological breakthroughs. Passenger flights in the 1920’s held a maximum of 20 people, flew at 3000 feet and was a slower form of transportation than the train.
It was 82 years ago, on Wednesday, “a day that will live in infamy” the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and launched the United States into World War II. The world had changed that day and we as a country were catapulted into a world power. We just had the Sixtieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. We landed on the moon in 1969 and the Viet Nam war ended in 1975.
It’s been nearly a quarter century since Y2K when we all thought that the world was coming to an end and the terrorist attacks of 9/11 took place in 2001.
Time is moving forward; history is being made every day. Advances in technology are moving at breakneck speed, with cell phones and computers, we have world news at our fingertips. We can be anywhere in the world in a day. Bigger, better, stronger, and faster seems to be the mantra of the day.
When I look back on how far we have come, on how much has happened and how much the world has changed in the last hundred years, I can’t even imagine what the world will look like in 2124.
Does this make sense?
Chuck
