We look back now, at things that happened in history, and say… “Well, what the crap?”  Especially in things of medicine and technology.

Jump back 150 years or so.  Say to the time of the Civil War in the United States.  We were doing some very backward things… as general practice.  In medicine… doctors would saw off limbs with rusty blades… or they would bleed people to cure them of their bad blood.   Okay, I’ll get away from the gruesome.  But we know better about these things now.

There were no cars.  Cameras were just getting started.  Electric in homes?  Nadda.  Telephones?  Not yet.  So in a relatively short period of time, we have had major advancements, in science, medicine, and technology.  Our understanding of how the world works has increased.

Now then…. jump ahead another 150 years.  Let’s say to  2164.  The year of the Great Orange Crops in Canada, and of course… the unfortunate Rye Toast Rebellion in Japan.  But.  In a century and a half….   we will know things then that we can’t even imagine now.  People of that time… will look back at us…. and say… “Well, what the crap?”

They will chuckle that we were using things like digital cameras, and cell phones.  Computer connected by wires, and cars that burned gasoline.  They will be astounded that we couldn’t even come up with a cure for the Common Cold.

Which is what I have.  Not the cure… but the gosh darn cold.

If only I had the Crystal Ball revved up tonight to peer into the future…

The future ain’t what it used to be.   —  Yogi Berra