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He was born in 1906, and witnessed the advent of nearly every technology of our modern world. He told me that when he was a boy in Sardis, Mississippi, the kids would chase any car that happened down the street, because it was so rare to see one. He talked about how flying machines, submarines, computers, televisions, the power grid, satellites, manufacturing, skyscrapers, and men on the moon, had all been considered science fiction when he was a boy. He honestly marveled that all of those things, and more, had come to pass, and that they were now the common building blocks of our world.

Something to consider; The greatest periods of technology adoption and development occurred in times of least government intrusion. The automobile was around but was not widely in use until the twenties. In the same period air conditioning, airplanes, electrification, radio, sliced bread, the home refrigerator, and even zippers were brought into general use. The next great technology explosion was in the eighties when computer technology took off and influenced almost everything we use.

My question is how much advancement has been lost due to the meddling nature of government? Would we be using the flying car now had it not been for the government tinkering with the economy?

something to think about.

My question is how much advancement has been lost due to the meddling nature of government?

Interesting point. We might each be generating our own electric power, for starters.

I read some time ago about what rural folks did before electric lines had reached them. It was very simple to rig up a generator to the windmill and charge up a tractor battery to power the few household devices (lamps, radio, etc.) Necessity being the mother of invention, there's no telling what folks might've come up with had it not been for government mandating rural electrification.

-—My question is how much advancement has been lost due to the meddling nature of government? Would we be using the flying car now had it not been for the government.-—

Ha! I remember the debate over telephone deregulation, and how the Left pissed and moaned about it.

Seems like the telecommunications industry has changed a bit since then.

Something to consider; The greatest periods of technology adoption and development occurred in times of least government intrusion.

It takes a tremendous amount of suppression to hold mankind down, but governments do their best.

I chalk it up to the simple fact that bright, productive people have little interest in working in government, but anti-social personalities are drawn to it like moths to a flame. Government is the ultimate vehicle for anti-socials to control and dominate others, hence, it's thoroughly infested with them.

Governments are raised and constituted by men of character, courage, and good will, but are soon taken over by the least worthy among them. Over time, they subvert the grand goals and purposes upon which their nations were founded, and reduce the job of government to one of robber and slave master.

It's the common denominator of all fallen nations.