Originally posted by: seemingly random
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Just freaky...
The Spiral of Technology:
"Many historians and sci-fi writers support the idea that human evolution resembles a spiral, not a straight line drawn by optimistic progress advocates. That, in fact, most events repeat, each time on some higher level. So it may look like linear motion, when viewed from a great distance. Some chairborne analysts do not take this factor into account and even manage to invent alternative world models based on similar events (they contradict experimental data, of course; but what fantast of a scientist will pay attention to such trifles as facts?) But this article is not about them. What's more interesting, the computer civilization, though still being in an embryo state, also develops in a spiral. As in case with the grand history of mankind, some people tend to forget that events repeat themselves. That's why each event is viewed as a unique breakthrough or as a global conspiracy of marketers (zionists, communists, freemasons, aliens, you name it). Time passes, passions abate, and computers again seem to develop in a linear way. Until the next collision, of course. But all these collisions (direct consequence of the progress "spring" being compressed too much by external circumstances) look so much alike in the main aspect that an alternative new chronology can be introduced. It's easy to prove that there were no fifty years of computer history and that the first computers appeared only 10-15 years ago."
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