So many new substances are being invented that combine so many of the properties of existing substances, it’s an age of mash-up. It’s also a feeling I get; try anything, break things, do things that are hard. This is the third in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/
I love it! “The age of mash-up.” Yes. Also the age of the remake. As Michael Caine so perceptively put it, anyone can remake a disaster and hope to come up with something better, but how can you do a remake of a runaway success, and hope to improve on it?
Is it progress, or lack of imagination?
Are there really no more new dreams left?
Our dying civilisation fears implementing new ideas, so our inventions only seek to re-use old ones. My next life will not be on this world…
Dying civilization? Really?
There’s nothing wrong in recycling. Why, the early research of the Chaos Theory was based on using old data, thrown away because the experimenters thought their instruments were crappy.
Nature is of an infinite complexity. Humanity can do as many double-takes as necessary.