Well, I got an e-mail pointing to Caesar and the subject kind of interested me: forgiveness. As recently I have been hearing the word forgive quite a lot, so the Universe must want to tell me something. But I don’t want to talk about forgiveness, I just was struck by the word Caesar, as it made me think of leadership and of the game Caesar as that was a game I liked a lot and consider playing again lately.
And this whole thing made me think of how things are connected and how we build on everything that we and people before us have built. As recently I am very interested in submarine cables, and my research opens a whole new world to me. And yes, I know for example the name TAT-1, but I didn’t know it had been taken out of service, even though it could still be operational. And while for us right now it is so common to be able to communicate with virtually anyone anywhere, even without being connected with wires, it is not that long ago that communication over e.g. the Atlantic Ocean was not even possible. And I guess it was even much more recent that communication over the Pacific Ocean became possible.
So what a strange world it is, and how fast did it change over especially the last century. And the change even seems to go faster and faster, although I don’t fully agree with that, as it seems the penetration of computers and internet the last two or three decades or so is about the same time span as it took for the automobile to become popular and common to the world.
And yes, I am wondering what would be next. Connecting directly to computers and the internet, so we all become part of, yes, what? But we are already connected, not directly, but things like Facebook make already that there is some kind of virtual world existing already.
Well, strange and amazing these things. Or just awesome?