What does it all mean?

So What Does It All Mean? This question was asked by the video we saw in class after it bombarded us with a slew of statistics meant to astonish us with our insignificance in this rapidly growing world. So much of the world is digitalized and the exponential population growth is contributing to the future users of technology. Our world today barely resembles that of any of the past societies, but is that really a bad thing. The technologies that we marvel at today are no more astonishing to us as electricity and paper was to past generations. We marvel at these technological strides because they are so much more advanced, but we forget to put earlier inventions into context. What we are doing is not at all fundamentally different than what our predecessors were achieving. We are just pushing the boundaries of known science in the same way that Thomas Edison was, and we will continue to do so. The mass of knowledge that is being generated by these technological advances are on the same exponential growth curve that they began with. Sure, The New York Times may give us more information in a day than early man every got in a life time- but the information has just become more accessible. The questions and answers were all there before, but not easy to get too or rely on. Besides, it seems half of the information is tabloid dribble anyway. Yes, there are more people, but we aren’t really doing anything new. We are all just living, reproducing, inventing, and dying. This is nothing new to the human race, although we are doing it on a larger scale. We are just doing the usual, even if the society seems to have ‘evolved’. So, what does it all mean? Nothing much.