GothicRomance
May 2, 2008, 01:29 PM
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
While I find this quote obnoxious, it is also sort of true. Whether by necessity or for a desire for something to be easier or more convenient, "things" are invented.
I ask myself the question that people must have asked in the 50-60s before HDTV, iPods, and ultra-portable laptops. What else could possibly be invented? Where could we possibly go from here? Isn't everything that could be invented already invented? Isn't there nothing new under the sun?
All-in-one smart phones, microwave dinners and streaming movies instantly. Everything is getting faster and more convenient. How fast and convenient can it get? If everything were instantaneous would that be the end of invention? Are we waiting to make floating cars, implanted computers, holographic displays?
I am by NO MEANS knocking society or invention in anyway... I am genuinely trying to work this (probably naive) question out in my mind. A rather ridiculous question, because if it isn't invented then you don't know it COULD be invented I suppose. All the things you never knew you didn't know.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
While I find this quote obnoxious, it is also sort of true. Whether by necessity or for a desire for something to be easier or more convenient, "things" are invented.
I ask myself the question that people must have asked in the 50-60s before HDTV, iPods, and ultra-portable laptops. What else could possibly be invented? Where could we possibly go from here? Isn't everything that could be invented already invented? Isn't there nothing new under the sun?
All-in-one smart phones, microwave dinners and streaming movies instantly. Everything is getting faster and more convenient. How fast and convenient can it get? If everything were instantaneous would that be the end of invention? Are we waiting to make floating cars, implanted computers, holographic displays?
I am by NO MEANS knocking society or invention in anyway... I am genuinely trying to work this (probably naive) question out in my mind. A rather ridiculous question, because if it isn't invented then you don't know it COULD be invented I suppose. All the things you never knew you didn't know.