From e.e-owner@visionplants.org Tue Jun 26 06:59:00 2001 Return-Path: Received: from mta404.mail.yahoo.com (mta404.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.128.56]) by mail2.thuntek.net (8.11.3/8.11.0) with SMTP id f5QCwx698989 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:58:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from e.e-owner@visionplants.org) Received: from mta404.mail.yahoo.com for valor@global-dialog.org; Jun 26 05:58:58 2001 -0700 X-Track: 1: 40 X-Yahoo-Forwarded: from eedonut@yahoo.com to valor@global-dialog.org Received: from 128.242.244.136 (EHLO visionplants.org) (128.242.244.136) by mta404.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2001 05:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.50] by visionplants.org with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A62B127300D6; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:55:07 -0400 Received: from jmsemachine ([12.81.86.65]) by mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010626125850.RPDA5127.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@jmsemachine> for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:58:50 +0000 From: "Webdriver" To: "EE Vision Plants" Subject: EE: The NEXT big thing Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:00:40 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Importance: Normal Precedence: bulk Sender: e.e-owner@visionplants.org Reply-To: e.e@visionplants.org Status: R Hi EEasy friends, I was daydreaming this morning and started wondering about all the major breakthroughs of history for Western Civ. Let's see; there were many, but if we only look at the BIG ONES, we might come up with a list. I'm sure I'm leaving some out here or have some of the ordering wrong, but generally, a list might look like this: 1. Consciousness 2. Language 3. Art (Cave Painting) 4. Fire 5. Wheel 6. Writing 7. Agriculture 8. Tribes, Cities, States, Nations 9. Ocean Travel 10. Explosives (gun powder) 11. Printing 12. Gravity 13. Discovery of the New World - Flat Earth debunked 14. Microbes, microbiology (germs, etc) 15. Electricity 16. Aviation 17. Uranium radioactivity - Nuclear Power 18. Relativity 19. Radio communication 20. Television 21. Computer 22. Space Travel 23. Computer Networking - Internet Communication Okay, in a nutshell, here's our progress so far (plus or minus a few breakthroughs). Now, if we were to extend this list, what would be some future breakthroughs? What order would they follow? Can you think of some really BIG breakthrough that would change everything? What would it be? Think in terms of "language", "electricity" or "fire" or "nuclear forces", ie; forces that we knew nothing about until they were discovered and then everything changed. Some candidates might be: Time travel Artificial Intelligence Diminsional Travel hyperlight speed (faster than light) Teleportation Consciousness Transfer God, Heaven, Hell, Good, Evil, Spirit Beings, Extraterrestrial life Meaning Santa Claus (hehehehe..) End of Time But the really BIG change would happen if there were a breakthrough that we don't see coming. Can you think of some unknown force, process or universal law that we're blind to today? Is there something we're missing? Do psychedelics help you see these possibilities more clearly? Anyway, I must've had too much coffee already? Isn't daydreaming fun? peace, love & light web-wonderer