If we take a hundred year perspective from now, what is going to be seen to be
important?
A lot of things which seem very central and important at the moment will be seen
to be trivial and peripheral.
In the days of the railroad barons (and later
oil barons) in the U.S.A. there were powerful figures on the landscape. Today
they are quaint notes in history. The dominant Bill Gates' of today will also be
quaint notes in history in a hundred years time.
What will really matter are the fundamental shifts in human beliefs, human
thinking, human behaviour and human organisation. There is not much happening in
these areas. And what is happening is totally swamped by the very transient
matters that abound in entertainment, politics and elsewhere.
It would be amusing to write a speculative book looking back from a hundred
years ahead.
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