From what we will be doing in the next few years, to the next few decades, to the next
few centuries, millennia, and even the end of time itself!
And looking back at everything that has happened in history as well!
Join me as we explore the history and future of everything!
Time.
Time is a concept that we know all about, love to talk about, can't control one bit
(as of yet), and stress about all the time because "we don't have enough of it.
For some people, they dream about time in regards to where they will be in the future
via their lives, their jobs, their potential relationships, and more.
Whereas some people don't look at time in regards to going forward, but rather, focus
on looking back.
They decided that to know what's going to happen, we need to know what came before,
what came first, and how we can learn from it.
To know the future is to know the past, and to embrace the past and its lessons is to
ensure a better future for us all.
And no matter what direction you're looking in or going toward, time is still the constant.
When you look at it through a certain scope, you understand that things are much bigger,
or much smaller, than you previous anticipated.
This is why certain "time warps" if you will have helped people gain new perspective, because
by understanding what you have done with your time you'll learn how to do more with what
you have, and not complain so much when you waste it.
Although we all know that you're going to complain anyway, don't worry, I do it too.
So where to start?
How about with today?
Every day here on Earth is 24 hours long, and our bodies (more or less) are adjusted
to that time frame, and we plan out our days and our lives to balance around those 24 hours.
Sure, there are exceptions to this of course, but let's just look at the average day.
Think about what you did on that average day.
More than likely, you spent about 6-8 hours sleeping (I hope!), and you might have spent
8-10 hours working depending on your job and how far you need to go to do that job.
Then, you probably had some free time to hang out with friends or family, eat your meals
to keep you going (and drinking a large amount of energy drinks I bet) and then you relaxed
with some TV, or played some video games, or did what a lot of people do and just waste
time on the internet watching cat videos.
Don't lie, you know you do it.
Each day, whether you realize it or not, is special, and no two days go exactly the same,
even if it feels like it at points.
And when you comprise 365 (or 366 in the case of leap years) of those days, you get a year
in your life.
Which is something that scares people at times because days, weeks and months seem to fly
by at points, and all of a sudden, it's not 2019 anymore, it's 2020.
In fact, we're already into 2020 by a few months when this video was launched, did it
feel fast to you?
But now let's look at time in the grander scope by looking back a little bit.
For example, if we were to look at the century we are in right now, you'd see that we are
in the 2000's by an astounding two decades already.
Yes, it's already been 20 year since we kicked off the 2000's and boy have we come a long
way in certain respects.
For example, in 2000, we were worried about the Y2K bug crashing all of our computer systems
and sending us back to the stone age.
And now, in 2020, computers are now so advanced that this is laughable to say the least, and
cell phones have become their own computer databanks that just about everyone in a major
country has.
Even television has evolved in terms of what is being shown and how it's being processed.
The idea of "binge-watching" a whole season of a show in a day would've been a hard sell
in 2000, but in 2020?
We have Netflix, Hulu, ESPN+, Disney+, and more giving us all sorts of content for us
to enjoy, binge, and rewatch much more easily, and more cheaply, than buying seasons on DVD.
We also finally got to record TV shows and movies without having to use tapes, which
I personally am grateful for.
In terms of true historical moments, the last 20 years have been full of wars, attacks,
losses of life, but as we noted, also great moments of technological advancement.
Microsoft and Apple helped lead the way into the future of music, computing, phones, and
more.
Cars are becoming more fuel efficient, and are even learning to drive themselves.
In 2000, George W. Bush started his two-term run as the President, this was followed by
the groundbreaking arrival of Barrack Obama, who also served two terms, and he was followed
by arguably the most controversial president in US History via Donald Trump.
And again, all of this happened in just 20 years.
Can you imagine the next twenty?
But how about we got even farther back?
Why not look at the century before?
The 20th century is arguably one of the most important in human history in terms of the
events that happened within it that set the stage for the 21st century and all that is
transpiring now.
In fact, most of you watching this video were more than likely born during this century,
I know I was.
Some of the highlights and important moments including World War I and World War I, the
Great Depression, the Moon Landing of 1969 (and ones in subsequent years), the Cold War,
the rise of the computer, television, radio and phone, the beginnings of the machine age
(aka assembly lines, power tools, etc), the birth of the internal combustion engine which
gave us cars, motorcycles, and more, and of course...the birth of the internet.
The jury is still out on that one to be honest.
All of that in just 100 years.
Think of where we would be if certain events DIDN'T happen like they did.
Our world would certainly be a lot different.
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As it would be if certain events over the last 500 years didn't happen like they did.
Looking at 1500AD-2000AD, you'll see even MORE important events as they unfolded throughout
the history of the world.
Like the Industrial Revolution, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 (which helped keep America
free from English rule), Manifest Destiny, the rise and fall of various empires like
Spain and France, and more.
Just as important, throughout the last 500 years, many new ways of communication were
born to help us understand the world around us.
Just in the last 500 years we got the theory of evolution from Darwin, the laws of gravity
from Sir Isaac Newton, we learned more about the stars that were over our heads, and learned
all sorts of new things about our bodies and the microscopic life that is all around us.
And don't forget, at this point in time, medicine was still a burgeoning thing, it was advancing
in certain ways, but not all the ways that mattered, which meant that death could happen
quite swiftly, whereas today it would be fixed with the most basic of medicines.
Which is important because if we look at the last 1500 years of our race was anything stable.
Between the Middle Ages, the Crusades, and the Black Plague, there was death just about
everywhere you looked.
The Black Plague alone took out nearly 1/3 of Europe and cost so many people their lives
that many hope that we never have to deal with such a thing again (which is all the
more ironic right now because of the rise of the Corona Virus).
If we look even FURTHER into our past, we reach the BC/AD point, where the world started
to look at the world in a different light and calendar.
Although it you were to ask various other people, they already knew the world was old.
After all, the Roman, Egyptian, and Green Empires ruled far into the past before the
ADs came around, and this say nothing of the numerous dynasties that the Chinese had.
The rise of the pyramids, the Great Wall, and more all happened before the ADs, and
the further you go back, the more primitive, and basic, the human race became.
When you reach about 12,000 years ago, that's when you hit the "rise of civilization" period.
Where humanity as a whole started to work together and do things like farming that built
up communities and started a process that eventually led to the mega-cities that we
have right now.
And if you wanted to pull back the clock to the earliest points of the human race as we
can define them, then that would be about 6 million years.
That's how long a version of humanity has lived on the planet.
6 million years.
Now if you've paid attention throughout your history and biology lessons at school, you'll
see a key problem.
6 million years...is NOT a long time in the grand scope of the Earth.
After all, if you go back many more millions of years, you'll find yourselves in the age
of dinosaurs, who ruled for HUNDREDS of millions of years before that darn meteor came and
wiped them all out.
The farther you go back from that point, the most mythical and legendary the creatures
get as they evolved into massive beasts on land, sea, and air.
Continuing to go back (yes, we still have a ways to go), you reach about 600 million
years ago, and at that point, you reach the beginning of the "animal era".
Because at that point in time, most animal life was from the sea and ocean, and only
over time did they evolve to go onto land.
Only around 200 million years ago did the first mammals show up.
Heading to 4.1 billion years ago on Earth, you get to see the first life on the planet.
But it wasn't animals, for the longest time, the only thing alive on Earth was single-celled
organisms!
A mere 400 million years before that, our sun was born, and 60 million years after that,
our planet finally got formed.
But it wasn't until a whole sequence of other events happened that it started to look like
it does right now.
Including somewhere in the timeline a massive asteroid hitting us, releasing a large chunk
of the surface of Earth into space...and the moon forming from that.
And finally, going ALL the way back to the beginning, we have the birth...of the universe.
Which occurred roughly 13.75 million years ago.
What came before the beginning via the Big Bang?
Your guess is as good as mine.
For many, this is the "endpoint" in regards to the beginning.
But that doesn't mean it's the end.
We just looked at the past, now let's glimpse the future!
We are now in the year 2020, and within the next decade we're aiming to do some pretty
incredible things, including going to Mars and starting up the first colony efforts to
try and get human to colonize all of space.
We're advancing computer technology via the power of A.I's, and our powers in terms of
technology have never been stronger.
So you might think that we are setting ourselves up for a "golden age" here on the planet.
But in truth, the opposite is likely true.
Our society seems to be crumbling under its own weight and technology and even its own
beliefs.
Instead of uniting, we're separating more than ever, which isn't what you would expect
given how far we've come in certain areas.
This is particularly bad because if we don't work together to save the planet, we're very
much screwed.
And no, I'm not talking about global warming, though that certainly is a factor in all of
this.
Rather, I'm talking about the universe putting our planet on a time clock.
Because in about 1 billion years, the temperature of the sun is going to be so hot that the
Earth will not be able to sustain life.
Then, in about 5 billion years, the sun will go into its next phase in life and either
shrink to a white dwarf star, or, go supernova and burn everything from its current position
up to Jupiter, thus wiping out Earth and whatever remaining humans may somehow be there.
So thus, if we don't embrace the stars and advance so much that we can get out of our
solar system, the human race may only have a billion or so years left to live.
But don't worry, everything has to die sooner, or later, and as we propel ourselves billions
and billions of years into the future, we see that this is true even for the universe.
Because slowly but surely, over time, the very stars of the universe will die out one
by one.
The universe will soon become a very dark place, and eventually, every single star,
every single black hole, every entity of the universe itself...will die.
The universe will be dead, and nothing short of another Big Bang will bring it back.
I'm sure this is a sobering though, the death of everything often does that to people.
But here's the catch.
That time?
It's not now!
You won't be alive billions and billions of years into the future.
Rather, you'll be alive for at most another couple or several decades.
Which isn't much time in the grand scope of things, BUT, it is a set of years where you
can make a difference.
So don't dilly, or dally, go and enjoy every day.
Don't wait for something to happen, go and make it happen.
Time waits for no one, and neither should you.
Because who knows what adventures await you if you give yourself the time and space to
go and get them done.
Thanks for watching everyone!
What did you think of this look at the history of everything both past and present?
Did you learn a lot from it?
Did you find yourself looking at your life and realizing you need to spend time doing
other things?
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