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Originally Posted by Adam McLeod
Darwin had Lamarck, Monet and Van Gogh had Michelangelo and Da Vinci, Beethoven had Mozart, Twain had Dickens, Mill and Marx had Hobbes and Plato. None of these people achieved any less because of a perception of a humanity that had 'all the answers' dictated by their predecessors. I'm sure you wouldn't argue that because of Karl Benz, we shouldn't be trying to design a better car.
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You are right about that of course. There are still people who are interested in improving upon what we gained in the last few centuries. It just seems like people are less interested in the topics I mentioned because they are not part of the "mainstream", because they are nothing new. Add to the fact that there are so much knowledge accumulated for all these other disciplines that it's hard for people to really understand what they are all about really quickly.
So now we are more focused in doing things like trying to design a better car, because that's where a lot of unanswered questions remain. Essentially we are still trying to figure out if the promise of modern technology is really all that we thought it would be (I still want my jet pack by the way).
There's nothing wrong about that of course. There's nothing wrong about improving the computers and the technologies and try to make this world a better place. I am simply pointing out let's not forget all these other things that created the world we have in the first place, which at the moment do seem to be set aside for the sake of "new" and "advance".
We are trying to change the culture, and like you I do worry that technology have taken so much of the mainstream that other things aren't being talked about. I am not saying people are trying to excluse anything else, its just that it just works out this way and we need to be aware of it.