The last week or so I’ve seen several programs on TV, like on Discovery Channel and National Geographic what we have achieved as humanity, as humans. And the longer I think about it, the more stunned I am and also the smaller I feel. As how can one human imagine something like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (in 1937!) or something like flying to the moon in 1969. Imagine arranging things like that without computers, or with the computer technology, or the level of technology anyhow in the sixties for the moon program.
And still, somehow these things started as a thought in the mind of one person. And yes, I know similar thoughts also often emerge all over the world for these kind of things, like I understand that printing presses for books were not invented by one person or in one place, but still, imagining something like the Golden Gate bridge in the nineteen thirties seems quite ahead of time. Although I saw that even in the nineteenth century people have built quite large bridges, mainly to accommodate train traffic.
And yes, I’m starting to feel humble, as I often I do things alone, like I’m good in programming and configuring computers. But still, I only program and am using programming languages and operating systems that have been built by thousands or even millions of people. As all builds on top of each other. I’m quite sure your newest computer or iPhone or tablet has some code in it that has been developed in the eighties, even though you may not believe that and I am not sure. But it’s quite likely as some code would still be kind of the same as thirty years ago.
So on one side I feel humble as I know that I am just one little human being in this world with like six billion people, like cells in a body where one is not that important. But somehow I also know that I am part of it and can make a difference, somehow. As some things are created in the mind of one man, even though it might be with the help of Infinite Intelligence.