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In leaps and bonds we have advanced to our present. Along the way inventions and discovers have come, and gone obsolete. Is putting our last great invention (some with undesirable side effects) aside. A likly way to kick of an overdue Renaissance?

Do you feel we are due for a Techno Renaissance?
Are we in the range, or in the middle of on?

Part of the reason this thread came to mind has to do with the apacolypse thread.

If you are saying a techno era Dabbler, then I would have to say yes we are in the beginning stages of one as I do not believe we have yet gotten into the middle of it yet as technology advances so quickly.

Whats our last great invention?

We've gone from horse and buggy to being able to buy a spot on a space shuttle in the past 100 years. I hardly doubt we are lacking in renaissance.

How short our collective memory is.

Over the next 50 years cars that run on water will be common place, robots will have surpassed human intel by 20 years, our clothing will contain a personal doctor, missions to Mars will be as common as missions to the ISS, broken metals and plastics will repair themselves and our houses will be constructed by a "just add water" method.

Technologically we wont need another renaissance for some 200+ more years.

Have we choked our selfs with obsolute tech?

Not by far. The only reason why obsolete things still sell is because people don't care to upgrade and the fact that nearly everything becomes obsolete each year.

We're just going through "technological growing pains." Once the global economic kinks get worked out the flow from old to new will become much more easy and accessible to even the poorest of people.

I believe that technology is still in it's infancy as technology has been around for quite some time...I guess it depends on your definition of technology.

I can hardly wait for the great melt off of, the upgrade gap will depend on product viability, and distribution, when classes have from screen text books for students then we will show how far we have advanced, it just seems that entertainment is more of an incentive then aducation, it is in the application.

It is like when you buy a car the next year the car has a system in it to tell you if your tires are low etc. Look at the technology of cell phones when they first came out, they have went a long way. You have built in computers in them. How about the game systems...the Wii and now they are bringing back record players that plays records and fixes scratches automatically. We have just seen the beginning there is much more to come.

Dab..you are right that technology is used more for entertainment and luxury items vs education. Sad but true the reason being it is more profitable in the entertainment and hobby line then it is education.

Bringing the two Renaissance together social, and cultural.. The internet has contributed to that as well, but to what extent?

Is social interaction at a renaissance, or is it just virtual?

Dab at this stage I believe it to be virtual but in the next couple of years then maybe renaissance.

I think digital communication already has began a cultural and social renaissance and not always for the better.

Thousands have met online and married as a result of the internet. Careers have been made and lost, crimes solved and so on.

Plus (at least for me) being able to still talk with people even though I'm rarely able to leave the house has helped in many ways.

Then you have folks who get hooked on internet porn, money schemes etc.

I personally feel like as the decades go by we are always in a Renaissance of some type. Rather it's music, technology, or even in just pop culture in general.

I think back to my research on Pen Pals, and the coming of transaltantic media being introduced to the world, and how it boomed and then wained.

Transatlantic sure, the global Atlantic population is slowing and in some places decreases. Transpacific on the other hand :)

Besides just because part of anything wains doesn't make it indicative of a larger issue.

A few industries had their hay day back in the postal boom, porn being one of those, especially when people in the states, learned that people in the UK had magazines with 17 year old models. Followed shortly by the scams that exploited those interested in obtaining those magazines..

To me that almost sounds more like Fad type things which come and go in a flash and quickly die out almost as soon as they boom.

True but "snail mail" is obsolete. If we're talking about a technological renaissance the post office, faxes, analog TV's, tungsten lights etc are going in the wrong direction.

Unless you're meaning we need a disco renaissance lol.

I dont think we are at the start or the end. We are constently in this process and I dont think it will ever end. When and if it does I feel that would be the death of mankind.

i think in the past 50 years weve been in the middle of one! in this period of time , its when the most notoryous inventions were created , i think.

It is my opinion that we, as humans, are going to continually be in a renaissance. History has shown us as a race to be on the constant move. We are curious and inventive.

Indeed it is. It's ridiculous how fast technology has inproved since the invention of the integrated circuit and the microchip.

disco renaissance Would be nice Xzavier.

Is there a renaissance socially or culturally?

Not sure myself I guess it would depend on how one looks at it.

Technology is an infant right now at least in the form it now holds (otherwise it is centuries if not millions of years old. The wheel and other objects and tools even older where Technological advances in there day.)



"Main Entry: re·nais·sance
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French, from Middle French, rebirth, from Old French renaistre to be born again, from Latin renasci, from re- + nasci to be born — more at nation
Date: 1845
1capitalized a: the transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century, and marked by a humanistic revival of classical influence expressed in a flowering of the arts and literature and by the beginnings of modern science b: the period of the Renaissance c: the neoclassic style of architecture prevailing during the Renaissance
2often capitalized : a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity
3: rebirth , revival"

According to the Merrriam-Webster online Edtion

for me... we are in the ear of technology and new technologic advances
going through a renaissance is not out of the question
it is a time of changs and new inventions
i blieve that we are starting a reaissance.. or have began setting the stage for one...
our child will grow up with all the lastes technologic advances in our life time... that is change and more change is yet to some..
ready or not... we have started.

The start of a ren. is not immidiatly noticable, a good point you make.