There was never_a_better_time_than_today

There was never a better time than Today! Cecilia Abadie

"Our youth love luxury and is rude, ignores authorities and has not the slightest respect for the elderly. " "Our children today are real tyrants. They do not stand upwhen an older person enters the room. They talk back to their parents and are simply bad. "

"Our world has come to its critical point. The children no longerlisten to their parents. The end of the world can not be far away."

"Our youth love luxury and is rude, ignores authorities and has not the slightest respect for the elderly.""Our children today are real tyrants. They do not stand up when an older person enters. They talk back to their parents and are simply bad. " Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"Our world has come to its critical point. The children no longerlisten to their parents. The end of the world can not be far away." By a Priest (2000 B. C.)

Were zoomed in!Looking only at the last 30 to 50 years.

Lets zoom out together ... and see what we find out!

Health/Medicine27 years ago - MRI32 years ago - First in vitro baby43 years ago - First heart transplant52 years ago - First pacemaker82 years ago - Penicillin and other anti-biotics88 years ago - Insulin to treat diabetics96 years ago - First successful blood transfusion

What do you think wouldhappen if we look into other variables? ● Life Expectancy ● Standard of living ● Violence/Wars ● Education

Human Rights20 years ago - Americans Disability Act (ADA)46 years ago - Civil Rights Act (Citizenship, DueProcess, Equal Protection Clauses)90 years ago - Womans Sufrage Right142 years ago - Fourteenth Amendment145 years ago - Slavery Constitutionally Abolished

Tendencies● Transparency (social networks, living online)● Values (human rights)● Accelerated (Moore Law, ingestible microchip)● Massively Interconnected (google search)● Globalized (time to global -> 0)● Consumer to Producer Gap tends to Zero C2P -> 0● Quantified Self (sensors, tracking tools, best you)● Life Hacking (sleep, neurostimulation)

Tendencies● Globalized (time to global -> 0)● Consumer to Producer Gap tends to Zero C2P -> 0● Quantified Self (sensors, tracking tools, best you)● Life Hacking (sleep, neurostimulation)● Robotics, nanobots● ??? (sci-fi web prediction?)

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There was never_a_better_time_than_today

by Cecilia Abadie on Aug 07, 2012

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