Soon To Be: History!

Today, decided to take an educational excursion to the local museums for a refresher lesson of those "old" and historical stuff. It's a worthwhile outing, besides rekindling with those items that so historical yet still so fresh in my memory, I learned a few "new" thing along the way. For example, there is a fragment of stone slab called "Stone Of Singapore" which bore an undeciphered inscription, discovered by Sir Stamford Raffles in June 1819.

This visit set me thinking of one thing: with the current speed of technology advancement, how long does it take (in terms of number of years) for a technological item to be rendered "history" or lost it's irrelevancy? For example, typewriter still in-use 15 or 20 years ago but I am pretty sure it is considered an antic nowadays i.e. can be seen only in the museum. Same thing goes to pager (the predecessor of MSN). Of course, every useful and creative invention do have it's years when it reached it's height but nothing will last forever!    

My personal list of high-risk items (for the next 10 to 15 years) are:
1. Telephone set (to be replaced by instant messaging, social media and VOIP [Voice Over The Internet Protocol]).
2. TV set (to be replaced by computer, laptop, smartphone, tablets etc)
3. Handphone that it non-smart phone (lost it's usefulness)

What is your list?

Last but not least, here come the inspirational quote:

"Will power alone might not change the outcome but positive outcome cannot be reached without it! Got WILL can REACH!"

Cheers!

History VS Future

History is one of my poorest subject in primary and secondary school (I know, that's many many years ago, it's already an history by it's own rights). Reason? You need to memorise lots of stuffs like the actual details of events, the years of occurrence, the name of "who and who" that made the history etc... and since I am not good in memorise things, that's why it's never my favourite subject! ;-P

Having said that, history is still an important subject to know and learn as knowledge, even though it might not have much direct impact to our future generation (as opposed to technology and science).

So, what constitutes as worthy history to you? Think about it!

To me, everyday is a history in the making, as long as the event is grand/important enough for us to share it with our offspring/next generation, repeatedly...That's history! In addition, I also viewed that "history events" that happened closer to you personally (e.g. the history of your parents/grandparent/grand-grandparents, your own city/country etc...) has greater impact to your life than the history in the text books in general. So, let's write our own history for the sake of our next generation! But before that, we need to have a plan to achieve a worthy future that is grand/important enough to make it to the history of our own life.

With this, it concludes my quote on history as :

"To make history, you need a worthy future"

Cheers!

P/S: Father's Day is around the corner! Don't forget this important day...