Disruption is a phenomenal tool.
Remember this song? “In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find ... ” - right through to - “In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if Man is gonna be alive. He's taken everything this old Earth can give, and he ain't put back nothing. God is gonna shake his mighty head. He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down and start again. Now it's been 10,000 years, Man has cried a billion tears, For what, he never knew. Now man's reign is through. But through eternal night, The twinkling of starlight. So very far away, Maybe it's only yesterday. Gives a lie to the feeling that there is nothing new, we may not learn fast enough and life will simply start of another cycle. Back in the 60’s (Source Wikipedia) the song suggested a world doomed by its passive acquiescence to and overdependence on its own overdone technologies, struck a resonant chord in millions of people around the world in the late 1960s.The song describes a nightmarish vision of the future as man's technological inventions gradually dehumanize him. The song also references examples of technologies that were not fully developed but were known to the public in 1969, such as robots, as well as future technology that would come into existence long before their prediction in the song, the science of test tube babies and genetic selection by parents of their future children. Such a concept had been explored in a few science fiction novels but had not yet, for the most part, been mentioned in the mainstream media.
Remember this song? “In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find ... ” - right through to - “In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if Man is gonna be alive. He's taken everything this old Earth can give, and he ain't put back nothing. God is gonna shake his mighty head. He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down and start again. Now it's been 10,000 years, Man has cried a billion tears, For what, he never knew. Now man's reign is through. But through eternal night, The twinkling of starlight. So very far away, Maybe it's only yesterday. Gives a lie to the feeling that there is nothing new, we may not learn fast enough and life will simply start of another cycle. Back in the 60’s (Source Wikipedia) the song suggested a world doomed by its passive acquiescence to and overdependence on its own overdone technologies, struck a resonant chord in millions of people around the world in the late 1960s.The song describes a nightmarish vision of the future as man's technological inventions gradually dehumanize him. The song also references examples of technologies that were not fully developed but were known to the public in 1969, such as robots, as well as future technology that would come into existence long before their prediction in the song, the science of test tube babies and genetic selection by parents of their future children. Such a concept had been explored in a few science fiction novels but had not yet, for the most part, been mentioned in the mainstream media.
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