Originally posted by Psycho Fox
Umm without Calulus no: jet engine, broadcasting, computers,TVs,ect
So I would say calculus forever changed everything.
Well we could say the wheel is therefore the most important invention. It was eventuality...it would happen no matter what.-(though everything that happened in history is an eventuality)
Originally posted by Damien
Bartak, I doubt calculus forever changed anyone's lifestyle, or the means and speed by which we get information, ideas, and entertainment. Glad to see we have a math fan, though.
You sure? Fire is still here and odds we will control fire indefinitetly as the wheel.Originally posted by DJ Raza
Maybe computers will be around for the next 1000 years, but I'll gurantee you they won't be around forever. So they haven't altered society and lifestyles indefinitely for all time.
Originally posted by Psycho Fox
Umm without Calulus no: jet engine, broadcasting, computers,TVs,ect
So I would say calculus forever changed everything.
You sure? Fire is still here and odds we will control fire indefinitetly as the wheel.
Originally posted by TimTwoFace
The term "Organized Chaos" springs to mind.
-Tim
Originally posted by RogueMartian
I don't think our alien overlords will let us study history much.
Actually, I believe that future historians will look on us the way we look on the ancient romans. A powerful and developed culture for its time. But who knows, maybe in a thousand years, the U.S. will be an insignificant speck on the timeline of human history.
Originally posted by TimTwoFace
Re: The American Legacy
You can't deny that the US has done a lot over the last two hundred years. Then again, a lot of other countries have, too, and they'll all be remembered. The single-most important thing that the US has accomplished in recent memory has got to be the space program; say what you will about social issues (racism and sexism stuff), but being the first to land on the moon was quite a big deal.
Looking back, though, the US (and any other country at the moment) has a long way to go to be on par with what the Romans and the British Empire accomplished in their time.
-Tim