In the 1960's Bob Dylan sang about the "Times They Are a Changing" and of course he was correct. But then, the times have been changing since life began. If we look at the face of America from our founding until now, we would not see very much that is familiar. The mean age of life expectancy was 45. We were essentially a poorly educated and rural collection of Colonies. When we fast forward to today, the changes are obvious, but could never have been anticipated by our founders.
Change as we see it from the founding has been basically for the better, but there are some clear concerns. Change in the past has taken long periods of time to occur. We often measured changes in our lives by decades. And now we are measuring change in months or sometime days. We once had the luxury of adapting to change and accepting new technologies. But it seems to me that the rate of change has outstripped our ability to recognize what is useful. The next topic will look at wants and needs.
Change as we see it from the founding has been basically for the better, but there are some clear concerns. Change in the past has taken long periods of time to occur. We often measured changes in our lives by decades. And now we are measuring change in months or sometime days. We once had the luxury of adapting to change and accepting new technologies. But it seems to me that the rate of change has outstripped our ability to recognize what is useful. The next topic will look at wants and needs.
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