Originally posted by TexasBut inorder to improve, we must invent.
Invention comes through originality. To invent an improvement is simply improvisation at work, it IS original, but lacks the roots of originality. What I meant by invention is that, the evolution process would be so widened due to the lack of current information, for example of Zero-G concepts, that I don't see us just falling on the concept even within our lifetime, we'll have to allow the technological process to gradually induce more info, which for example, mathematics has taught us, over hundreds of years.
Abacus to Thermodynamics
Considered simple to us now, but how long did it take us to simply grasp these ideas?
Originally posted by Texas
Flying cars are atleast 1000 years away, end of paper currency, much closer then you think. We are heading closer towards a 'paperless office' everyday. No need for paper when you can send and read everything electronically. Cheaper and more efficient that way. Paper is like soooo 1954!!!!
*This is not a gunshot at ethnicity*
Do you realize America is so far ahead of other countries technologically that you guys try to see things as if it's up to you guys? Everything there is electronic, but not here. Sure we have computers, big businesses, etc., but we most certainly aren't a country ran by microchips. I can speak for almost all the other Euro countries as well.
If America is making the footsteps away from paper currency, then let them, but the rest of the world WON'T be able to follow, so it will be an isolation I hope you guys can live with for the next 500 years until the other countries to catch up.
Japan is far more advanced then the US. We depend on them for mostly everything. I dont know anyone who pays with cash anymore, everything is on credit cards or automatically deducted from their bank accounts each month (telephone, car insurance, etc). Almost everyone has Palm Pilots, (no paper notebooks needed). Now within the next 5 years they are planning to implement electronic books in classrooms and I can easily see how paper in general will become extinct as a median of communication. Paper money included.
yerss:
that's completely wrong.
japan is the #1 producer of electronics, and they are the ones who come up with new stuff all the time.
UBH:
I can't follow your analysis of the use of electronic devices in USA vs. Europe. I think many europeans use as much/many electronics in their lifes. and, when it comes to cell phones europe and japan is ahead. I agree with tex in that paper-money use will decrease strongly in the years ahead.
I didn't know cell phones were a substitute for all that stood for technology...
Also, Europe, Japan, Australia and America are the only places that use credit cards or even checks for that matter. I visit Eastern Europe (more specifically Romania, Russia, and Bulgaria) and almost no one there uses anything BUT cash.
Sure, the 4 places I listed above are the vast importance to our economic market, but they aren't the only ones.
Just because we may follow what Japan and America do (credit cards, cheques, etc.) doesn't mean we're all on the same line of progression.
by UBH
If America is making the footsteps away from paper currency
ehh we are kind of at that state now in Norway, most people use Visa cards when shopping. I seldom carry any money on me, just my Visa. And while at it, when I last were in the States they had a little problems with my Visa. The credit card equipment they used in stores were ,at least for us in Norway, OLD GADGETS.
I havent been shopping in other European countries for a while, but I was surprised at the ancient equipment used in the States.
And they had never seen the kind of visa card I used, It is an ID on the flip side of it and that was totally new to them. Those card have excisted for over 10 years here.