hmmmm.... so what does it all mean?!

There’s one question that our world has gotten to. If you look back on our world history, we have come a long way; we have found out ways to create light, electricity, and technology. All of these things have given us human beings more power and knowledge to rise above the rest of the world. We consider ourselves superior to the environment, only thinking about when we will cut down rainforests to turn into shopping malls. We’ve come out of control using so many of the earth’s resources, terrorizing trees for paper, and filling once lovely fields into disgusting landfills. What do we do about it? Nothing. We just ignore it and glue our eyes back to our computer screen, and socializing over websites. Well nothing won’t cut it anymore; nothing won’t cut what we’ve created.

Our world as I speak is becoming more and more complex. If you look back at our parents time, a lot has changed compared to the lives we live now. In today’s generation, we are comfortable with more technology, texting, and many more things that weren’t available back in my parents’ childhood. It seems that every second apple is releasing new software or the ‘latest’ version of the ipod. Computers are becoming more and more powerful; they estimate that we will build a computer with more capacity than the human brain by 2013! However, what happens once the technology becomes further ahead than the human race?

Not only that but getting into university’s isn’t defined the same as it was 20 years ago. It is not just about knowing or memorizing things anymore, since we can find the answer in a split second using search engines like Google or yahoo. Our information we retain will be outdated by the time we are in 3^rd year.

We are learning more and more each day, and discovering solutions to diseases we could never dream of overcoming. If anyone heard the word cancer a while back you would automatically believe it was a death sentence. Scientists have figured out so many of the world’s unsolved mysteries. They have inquired things like simply the solar system, computers, and how to prevent certain sicknesses.

So what does it all mean? It means a lot of things, the meaning probably different to each and every person. To me, it means that us in terms of humans have come a long way. Our world seems as if it’s rushing past us, and that it’s a life we often spend chasing to catch up to. We have evolved and are constantly learning more and more each second, when in reality our information turns outdated by the time we understand.