(originally drafted 11/2011)
The recorded
time line of written history has moved rapidly through 5,000 or so
years, beginning in the ancient
Travel technology
of the first 5, 850 was a very long
period in which humanity’s mode of rapid transit other than foot
running, was by horse and horse drawn chariot-buggy, wagon, stage-coach,
and wooden ship-ocean liners.
Communications during the same period of time was by
the technologies of mouth-voice-tonal sounds, flag waving, trumpets,
hand signals and those made by puffs of smoke from small fires.
Suddenly, there was an
explosion of
invention as if visited by some mysterious, almost magical, miraculous –
intelligence, whereby travel and communications technologies transformed
humanity by dazzling quantum leaps into the present time- dispensation
of the vast “human bubble” population.
Such a sudden lurch or quantum leap and steady
acceleration in these technologies in travel and communications in which
were in real time and aware of each other, has humanity in a dizzying
state of global shock.
Concomitantly, the human population also exploded
circa 100 years ago.
This quantum
leaping in travel and communications began in what is commonly known as the industrial revolution essentially
beginning in the early 1800's, particularly during and immediately
following the US Civil War of the 1860-1865, bounding in the areas of
land transportation (on trains being first, followed by automobiles); to
sea – from wooden sailing vessels to steam powered engines; even to air
and now space explorations, all within a sudden and short spurt of
around 100 years.
Compared to the 5,000 -6,000 years of static
technology, this recent 100 is clearly a sudden and explosive leap for
the humanity into the world that it now exist as the dispensation of the
Human Bubble.
Picture the time scale as an
helium filled balloon on a string.
The long string is the time line of 5,000 plus
recorded years of history and the balloon is the human population
"bubble".
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