by Morgan Carlson

Created on: February 02, 2009

As the highlight of the times, technology is without a doubt the foremost, embedded deep within society as a part of our everyday life. But then humanity has always had its ingenuity, from shaping rocks into tools, to the wielding of metals, and the great crafting of many inventions that carried them through the ages. What sets the change of technology today apart from its evolution of yesterday?

It's possibly a loaded question. How does yesterday differ from today, when change now is compounded by the progress made then? More importantly, at what point did the change accelerate to a state that can be called notable?

Although the Industrial Revolution had a great hand at pushing areas forward, nothing joined the world in the progression of technology as did the World Wars. Where World War I helped to crack the global seal on patterns of thought and borders, World War II shattered them completely. With the global boundaries shattered, so opened were the flow of ideas like never before from the forced interaction between countries and the resultant need to push technological development to the limit.

After so many years spent pushing progress to meet the demand, the push didn't end when the wars did, instead escalating to even greater levels as the victors vied for position of world superpower. With pressure to remain on the forefront of technology, the lead powers began absorbing the talents of other countries and areas around the world, often injecting them with more technology to support the need of supply and branch growth. As cheap labor and worker force aided the growth it also helped to support the local industry, eventually bringing the world to where it is today.

But where is technology today and how is it changing? Not long ago, technology followed the concepts and theories set by society's intellectual peers and leaders, whether something was possible or not was confined to a much smaller box than what could contain it. Whether aspects of the box still bind it or not, possibility has changed with the technology that has overwhelmed it. No longer is the restriction on what was known before, but the restrictions on the achievements reached along the way, leading further towards the path of Pure Thought Creation; the ideology that whatever is thought can be created. Meaning however technology is in its base concept, any form of thought will help advance it to the next level, even if the thought was never to be entertained.

Although the concept is easy to

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