Standing On The Shoulders’ of Giants

It’s easy to forget how far we have come as humanity, in discovering technology. I am reminded sometime when I try to plant something in my quaint garden, where I then decided to google and a product for my problem then appears as a recommended purchase. Being a cheapskate, I would then continue looking for alternatives that are much cheaper (or free). Surely people in the old days have solutions to this, I thought. Yes, they do, but it would almost certainly be more laborious or time consuming. Well there goes my money, as I reverted back to the recommended purchase by Google.

This process repeats in one way or another and I would then be reminded again that it takes a lot for some simple task that I take for granted. Even typing this post, focusing on the typing, would involve a whole century of how typewriter was developed and improved over time, before evolving into keyboards used in our current electronics. Just like a letter makes a word, and a word makes the sentence that might revolutionize the world, our contribution to human kind might be as important as that letter, that it being small and minuscule, but missing it might be a difference between a piece de resistance or piece of *hit.

And that comforts me, as how a bore my job is, it will be a contribution to humankind. InsyaAllah.

Thank you for reading.