Technological Advancement

[Enter Post Title Here] EIGHTY YEARS OF CHANGE Your great grandparents’ world, the world of 1914, was very different from our way today. This little article is geared towards making you see reasons and how their world changed into ours. The world of those days was so crude that if they had been told that the world would someday be what it is today, they would have called you a devil. It is so glaring and obvious to some of us who could read from archive the way and manna the way the world of those were operating, can begin to expose some of the events that took place in those days. For instance, the speed at which our fathers or men of the ancient travelled t hose were probably within the range of 70 mph, on a steam train, there were a lot of transition through then till now that around 1980s an airliner could travel for or around 800 mph. today all these had changed considerably. In those days if our fathers were ill, their doctors if even they could afford one had no penicillin or other related drugs to fight and kill germs in the body but today the reverse is the case. Some born in the UK or BRITAIN in and around 1914 could expect, on average, to live about 55yrs, but today, an average life expectancy is around 75yrs. Africa was the most affected of all the continents, how you asked? In Africa over those times around 1914s, it was very clear that the rest of the world was more developed but an average life expectancy is higher than in other parts of the world, and that was achievable through the aid of traditional or orthodox medicine whereby most diseases and ailments has cure till date. In Africa, the rise of scientific medicines did not really affect the life expectancy except in few areas like delivery process like evacuation process called surgery THE GLOBAL VILLAGE Today, many grew up to hear things like the world is a global village and the things like, but the reality is, why the name global village, and what makes the world a global village? 1. In great Britain, as of 1914, was already a nation with towns and factories, including the US, CANADA, GERMANY, FRANCE, and few other countries as at then. But nearly every other nation of the world was still living in SLUMS, villages and towns and virtually grew their own food. Today far more people in the world today live in cities and towns working to earn a living. Depending on foods grown in other parts of the world. In 1914, London with about 7 million people was the worlds; biggest city, in the 80s, Tokyo with around 25 million people became the worlds’ biggest with other cities like Lagos in Nigeria boasting of a population of around 15 million people as of 2012. 2. The Village. In a village most people live not too far from one another, and new each other so well, but this is really not the case in towns and cities. But since 1914, the world trade and travel activities have become much easier. Radio and other media houses have also been developed, so people from other side of the world could easily see and hear words from the others. Even in recent times, the use of the internet has made things easier. The way the world is positioned, works and functions exactly like the old village settings that is why it is called the Global Village. This blog is about the development of technology that has changed people’s lives in the last 100 years, which has made the Global Village possible. It is about Government and Wars. The changes in technology have made Government more powerful and Wars much more deadly and dreadful than 1914 and after 1914. This is the more reason people of the Global Village should understand each other and also try to control what their Government is doing. If the people of the Global Village are to understand each other in the same way, they need to know what people on the other side of the world are doing, what they did last year, 50 or 100 years ago, and why they did it, overall history should be seen as one of the major course in our institutions the world over.