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Imagine showing this video to someone from the 17th century or earlier, their minds would be blown they probably wouldn't be able to process what they were seeing, everything in this video did not exist in their time, it would be like taking someone who has lived all their life in the tundras and arctic and placing them in the amazon jungle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiyaiTGrXcg
We've come a crazy long way as a species in such a short time.
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Also it actually looks pretty comfy up there
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Would love to explore it, get lost in it
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>>38130424
Imagine bringing back to life the influential figures in the black civil rights movements like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X.
and showing them this. This is what they struggled for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eoJkU9s-Vg
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>>38130507
Imagine PS&G season 2;-;
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>>38130424
Depends on who you brought back from the era.
If you brought somebody who was the scientist+philosopher type, I don't think it'd be entirely unsurprising to them.
Sure they'd be amazed and flabberghasted at first...up until they see how woefully short humanity has come to really using any of this technology for good.
>So surely now, every human can live in good health, beyond the reach of the natural struggles of animal life?
Nope! Corporations and governments control it all, and ensure that disorder exists in any society, because there's money to be made in giving people escapes from their suffering.
>But...you can all communicate instantly, you could rally! Free yourselves!
Have you seen the internet? We use it for porn, memes, video games, and movies. Again corporations and governments control it, so anybody actually capable of organizing gets shut out before a movement can foster.
>Well...surely now that humanity has seen the capacity to touch the stars, it has united them?
Nope. We can destroy the entirely planet at the press of a button! Nobody trusts each other.
>A thousand years of crawling out of the swamp, and all the sacrifices made for science against the mountains of ignorance, for this future?
Dude cheer up! Just look at this: with the push of a button I can have entertainment, food, drugs, whores delivered directly to my house. We're gonna get high as fuck and watch some COSMOS so you can stop caring about everything so much.
Nothing about humanity has changed, just the props we get to play with for our time on the stage of life.
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>>38130632
That's awfully pessimistic
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>>38130713
It's not pessimistic, it's more stoic/pragmatic.
Technology has made significant leaps forward
Humanity has not
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