THE SECOND RENAISSANCE

Introduction

‘Travelling through a lifetime’

We see, touch, feel, smell and then we think. We travel through time and make our own small donation to the gene pool of life. We have opened a doorway to a new tomorrow; we have entered a second Renaissance. Information Technology has and will change cultures and lifestyles and the way we look at ourselves, the universe, plus our creator.

 The second Renaissance started in 1971 at the birth of the personal computer (PC).  The invention of micro-processor led to many new computer based conception that have revolutionised industry, office, military, education, communication and you’re home.  Software has, and, become more sophisticated and allowed information exchange and improvement on communication methods.  The Internet has begun to effect politics throughout the world; Dictatorships and governments are getting worried and are seeking acceptable methods of policing the web.  But because of the structure and that the Internet has too many autonomous publishers and users. China has made a futile attempt to police the internal use in China but their intrusion will fail.  The very fact that pornographic web sites can only be culled and not restricted and completely stopped.

 As long as the Internet remains free of government control, the second Renaissance will open the eyes of the brainwashed masses, and will lead to an open society of free thinking individuals and less corruption and poverty throughout the world. The Internet could have more potential than anyone in power had ever thought. It as already been used by terrorist and activist.

 Timothy Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, developed the World Wide Web (Internet) in the 1980s.  Originally the system was designed for the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of an ongoing project initiated in the 1960s. It seems ironic that a military project has become a tool that could lead to public awareness and eventual world peace and to wake up the sheep.