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[quote=Anonymous]I don't feel like the world has changed more drastically now than before.  When I think of the 1900's they had so much change with cars, technology (introduction of TV, internet), space travel, world wars, Spanish Flu pandemic, great depression etc.  I don't feel like today is changing that much.

I feel like most of the issues of the world are still here today such as climate change, political issues eg Israel/Palestine. For me what has changed the most today is technology.  I mean even with space travel not much has been done since the moon landing in 1969 some 52 years ago.  We are still orbiting around our tiny rock although the Hubble telescope has given a more in-depth understanding of what's beyond us.  It took 8 years to get to the moon and some 52 years later we are barely able to get to Mars.  So now we are organising space tourism into orbit and return so it seems like space travel has pretty much finished.

What I do feel has changed dramatically for me is the pandemic.  Where I felt my life was fairly predictable before now I don't know.  I feel like the world has changed in ways I don't yet understand or see.  The easy traveling of yesterday seems gone.  There is fear in society, it seems more depressing and harsh.  Perhaps that's just me and it will go in time but although the rest of the world still seems to have it's issues that have been going on for eons, for me the world seems a different place all due to COVID.

Perhaps because its technology changing so drastically now and that is all contained in a small device, it feels like the world has stagnated but the online world has exploded.  The online world isn't always a positive one and so I feel unsure of the future and how unkind humans will evolve to be.
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