100 years in 10 minutes.

[PHC1]

100 Years in 10 Minutes (1911 - 2011 in 10 Minutes) - YouTube

[joeinid]

Thanks Serge!

Very cool indeed.

[jdandy]

Serge.......Very interesting video. Man's inhumanity to man is astonishing. The merciless killing never seems to end. Kill one person, they throw you in jail. Kill a million people, they make you king.

[Still-One]

Thanks Serge. Brings back a lot of memories.

Jim

[bakerman]

Could the music have been any more ominous? Jeezus what a downer. Why are these things always in the "glass half empty" section? Do the makers of these videos think people don't want to see all the great contributions that were made during this time?



...or is it just me?

[jdandy]

I was fishing on the bank of the Wiliamette River north of Portland, Oregon the morning St. Helens blew. I remember standing there looking at that eruption, the mountain now 1300 feet shorter, and feeling smaller than a grain of sand on the river bank.

[metaphacts]

Interesting take on the past 100 years. Wonder what events I would choose in putting together the same type of compilation.

[PHC1]

No doubt the last 100 years saw an explosion of technological advancements in every category. As I watched this video, I couldn't help to be reminded that we, humans, the primary species that holds everything, including the future of our planet in our hands tends to focus so much of the technological advancements for the destruction of our own species and much of everything else around us. Let's hope this century as well as going into the future, we finally begin to channel all that creative energy into a more positive direction.
I have my doubts about that though.....


No doubt our society and our planet has some challenging times ahead with the population explosion over the last 50 years. It will be a monumental task for the future generations to try to balance the resources of our planet, keep pollution under control and to feed and house some 14 Billion people that UN projects towards the end of this century. I am sure some minds are already reeling with all kinds of ideas. That scares me.

[gtubes]

Originally Posted by bakerman

Could the music have been any more ominous? Jeezus what a downer. Why are these things always in the "glass half empty" section? Do the makers of these videos think people don't want to see all the great contributions that were made during this time?



...or is it just me?

It's not you, I agree. The attached or linked videos that followed were similar in style and had the same music, the bodybuilding one anyway..

[80B]

Originally Posted by bakerman

Could the music have been any more ominous? Jeezus what a downer. Why are these things always in the "glass half empty" section? Do the makers of these videos think people don't want to see all the great contributions that were made during this time?



...or is it just me?

Doug, it was a very German take on the century, which colors it tragically as much as an American would color it more optimistically. Much of the evil portrayed was defeated.

When you look at the post-WWII world, we're living in a golden age that started in "the west" and has expanded. Look at China for example: Mao unleashed arguably the largest famine in the world c. 1958, but today they've shed much of their totalitarian ways (not all certainly), and hundreds of millions of people have emerged from below the poverty line, and I'm hopeful that as the country takes more center stage, their leaders, as well as those elsewhere, allow it to happen peacefully.

Everyone should ask himself: would you rather be here now, or two hundred or two thousand years earlier for that matter? There's a lot of massacres, famines and cruelty that were never filmed - the difference since the industrial revolution is one of scale concomitant with the benefits. We tend to forget what an exceptionally great era we live in. I for one am thankful.

Serge, thanks for the video - had my son watch it with me, and it does (as contrary to the above may sound) provide lessons.