THAT'S BEEN CHANGED! Even change is not the same.
We are certainly about as involved in change as we have ever been and even the nature of doing modified - or has it?
Assume, for the moment, that you are a manor woman living in pre-historic times and you realize you are feeling pangs of hunger. Top meet that need you will turn to something we now call "Trial and Error". You have found by observing which plants the wild animals of the area ate and which ones they avoided. You tried some and found some you liked; others seemed unpleasant and by trial and error you discarded item after and ate the others. The seeds, blooms, buds, fruits, and stems. shoots, nuts and berries you chose seemed to help sustain you ; enabled you to move about easier searching for more of them which was your main work. Gradually you made changes. Why not store some of the nuts and other items in the wall of the cave? Or,in that hollow...in a skin folded over upon itself to protect them. Those wonderings came to mind and changes were made....leading, in time, to storage barns,silos and agricultural crop care and tenure.
I can remember not too many years ago all those people who were sure the year 2000 was the end of it all. I think the vast majority of those persons who were so disappointed by the failed mega-disasters of the Midnight Hour regained at least a portion of their former dedication to dire predictions concerning the presence of the computer in all mankind's affairs today. It is now the role of the evil computer to finish up the job the millennium left so undone. Much has been forgotten but some of such fear is still to be found in those who picture the computer always as the competitor forever an per-destined enemy rather than a learned friend and associate. If controlled by evil men, it can, indeed, be a prime danger.
Now in this age in which we are privileged to live, we see such changes almost every day. In the past artists used to gather together in the summer months annually to make artists drawings, endless sketches , technical drawings of precise details, fashioning clay models on plywood armatures would be made to show the always un-finished and costly ideas to engineers who, in turn would explain them to workers who built the cars by following those instructions. Now, the new cars we are now seeing on the highways are design-engineered as three-dimensional sketches on a computer. Under the old system no one knew what cost factors might be or how much aesthetic changes and and modifications might add to the cost of the car but with computer controlled design and production such costs can be incorporated with technical information.
The advances brought about by changes in computer technology are readily apparent in the construction industries, as well. Look about you. See for yourself this fantastic world of change in which we are preparing for even better generations.
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 9-22-06 [c527wds]
