I visited the famous ciment Perl a chez . A lot of famous people rest there, but lot more are unknown for my encyclopedic culture.
In Alvin Tofler’s three wave theory, in human civilization there are three important waves of power: brute force, money and then intelligence, which stand for agricultural civilization, industry and finally IT.
150 years ago mothers got birth to ten children to keep 2. Present you can choose the genetic father and mother, alter the genes, clone the child, have pictures of it at 3 weeks. This is a big change.
The last 150 years are the shift from industrial era to the IT era. There are changes in the way people get married. 150 years ago, your father would have tried to convince you to ask your twelve years cousin to marry you. Today you would be an incestuous pedophile. But today you can marry your same gender, banished that time. This is a big change.
But what about the last stage in human life, the death. We are buried the same way as 150 years ago. The tradition is that 7 years after the burial, the skeleton might be removed from the cave if the family does not pay. But now, due to the chemic food, we preserved much longer then ancestors. After 30 years a body might have some parts perfectly preserved, like a half of a saint. So it’s very weird.
All the history, humans were obsessed by preserving the body, the tomb. Think about pyramids, and even Christian stone graves. History showed the date ( the name, the story ) are lost, even it was craved in marble.
We are living in the IT era. All our life is saved and digitalized since we are 3 weeks old. Think about the following scenario: after the burial of her husband, the wife starts to edit the film of the life of her beloved. Selects photos from thousands, selects minutes of film from hundreds of movies. This way she makes order in her memories and feels better. And there is the result of her work: the movie and a set of photos of the man he was. When you walk on the cimentary alleys you turn your palmtop on, you can connect to the little pc which is in the grave and get a glimpse on the man who is inside.
I wander whom should I let inherence this blog address.
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