Never before in the history of humanity have things been so fast paced. A package can be shipped almost anywhere in the world in under 48 hours, we can communicate face to face with someone in China, the world population is increasing at an unprecedented rate, and climate change is out of control. Yet in the height of our civilizations glory and sophistication, we are still inefficient. We still fight wars, people are still starving, and will continue to do so. Never before have we held the answers to so many questions, never before have we had the cure for so many diseases, despite all of this, people are dieing from avoidable causes. Malaria and diarrhea are some of the developing worlds biggest killers, there is treatment for these, yet somehow they don't reach the approximately 7 million people who die from these diseases each year.
We live in an age of complacency, I believe this is caused by the relative comfortably many people in the US and developed world feel in their daily lives. It is hard to become riled up and angry at the government or act out against some global issue, when you are surrounded by things which make you happy and comfortable. Many of the issues which plague the world dont strike close enough to home for people to react.
It is my hope that the global brain will continue to grow and strengthen, and the access to information spreads to the people who could benefit most from it, people who have grown up and lived with nothing people who have the drive to change the world around them.
Like it or not, we are on the edge of something unprecedented in the history of the world. We may be on the edge of some higher development of man kind, or we may be on the brink of collapse.
http://www.alertnet.org/topkillerdiseases.htm
May be where technology is taking us, that is where God wanted us to be. The bible states that we are small God ' god'. We should be able to create, innovate and change the world.
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