This day in history - November 20

[seamusTX]

1620 - Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay, the first child of European ancestors born in New England.

Virginia Dare preceded him by decades, but she disappeared with the rest of the Roanoke colony.

1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1925 - Robert F. Kennedy was born.

1945 - The first Nuremberg Trial of Nazi war criminals began.

1967 - The Census Bureau estimated that the U.S. population passed 200 million.

It took 347 years for the population to reach 200 million. It took less than 30 to add another 100 million.

1985 - Microsoft released Windows 1.0.

A lame piece of junk it was.

- Jim

[USA1]

1985 - Microsoft released Windows 1.0.

A lame piece of junk it was.

We've come a long way in 25 years.

With technology advancing at an ever increasing rate, it's unimaginable to think what the next 25 years will yield.

[lonewolf]

There will be a little gizmo hovering over all our heads telling us to get up in the morning, eat breakfast, what time to go to work, etc, etc, etc....

It will undoubtedly be tuned to our brain frequencies, requiring no physical connection. If I want to ask a young lady out, my gizmo will download her history and background, evaluate it and if all is ok will arrange a suitable meeting with her gizmo.......

Then our gizmos will make little gizmos that decide that the humans are no longer required, and we will be penned up like sheep......

Kind of depressing, isn't it?