Time Flies

With computers, cell phones, i-pods, GPS systems and the like making our lives easier and presumably more enjoyable we forget how incredibly brief the "age of technology" has been. It was only a hundred and twenty nine years ago today that Edison first demonstrated his incandescent light bulb. That's shorter than twice my lifetime. For hundreds of thousands of years man got along without electric light, and then came this explosion of stuff. The problem is that our brain is simply not sufficiently evolved emotionally to deal with the amount of information constantly bombarding us, nor the speed with which it's accessible.