What Century are We In?

What a Time to be Alive

Earlier this spring, NASA engineers flew the GL-10 (“GL” stands for “Greased Lightning”) prototype drone at a military base located about two hours away from the agency’s Langley Research Center in Virginia.

GL-10/photo from google images

“It could be used for small package delivery or vertical takeoff and landing, [and] long-endurance surveillance for agriculture, mapping and other applications,” Bill Fredericks, an aerospace engineer at the Langley Research Center, said in a statement.

100 years ago, the first coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call was made on 25th January 1915. Engineer Alexander Graham Bell placed a call in New York to his assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco, aided by a newly-invented vacuum tube amplifier. The telephone line they used had been completed in June 1914, but for maximum publicity the telephone company responsible, AT&T, waited until the start of the 1915 Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco to instigate the call.

The Ticking Clock

We measure and record the passage of time using different units of time such as hours, days, weeks, months and years. A day is time taken by the Earth for one complete revolution around its axis. A year is time taken by the earth for one complete rotation around the sun. This equal to 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds.

In the past, different countries have devised different calendars to measure and record time. Either way, we live in a time where, no matter which corner of the earth we’re closest to, we have an opportunity to glimpse the future. We live in a time where we can understand the technologies that matter and how they’ll change the face of business and drive the new global economy. 100 years ago, human beings were still creating incredible, phenomenal and formidable pièce de résistance.

What century do we live in? One with so much wonder and impedimenta, that we cannot live in without creating.

Originally posted on here.