Technological progress Part 1
In the beginning
Thag and Ulf were whamming their clubs over each others’ heads when Ulf lost his grip on his finely-crafted, hand made piece of Neolithic phallic assertion apparatus and it went flying through the air towards the territorial battle hill’s edge. The club gracefully bounced up and down and rolled round and round culminating in a would be epoch changing wobbling rotation motion as it rolled down the hill. Ulf’s protruding eyebrows raised in wonder as the darkness between his prehistoric synapses lit up in a spark of what would be history changing genius if it weren’t for the presence of Mankind’s oldest and most irritating of enemies - Murphie’s law.. Me have idea! Ulf thought to himself. Me call it, the wheel! Ulf’s thoughts were violently interrupted for another 2,000,000 years as Thag’s club came smashing down onto his skull.
Cut to the early 21st Century where Ulf has reincarnated as a female secretary in a busy paper merchant’s office. She opens her word processor and starts to to type, looking furtively over her shoulder, hoping desperately that she is not seen utilizing company equipment to submit a patent application for a revolutionary transportation device that utilizes quantum physics discoveries that she read about in New Scientist. This could be it for me! she excitedly thinks to herself. Suddenly, a message appears on her computer screen from the IT department:
UNAUTHORISED USE OF COMPANY EQUIPMENT DETECTED.
YOUR LINE MANAGER HAS BEEN ALERTED.
COMPANY POLICY IS SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY FOR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF CORPORATE PROPERTY
Some would argue that the greatest enemy of progress is ourselves. The organizational structures that we erect around us in efforts to protect and facilitate our civilization’s development seem to present insurmountable barriers to our progress as a race. Ask Ulf. I bet he was royally ticked off as he was floated off the hill to take stock of his life lessons. Why do we do this to ourselves?
I have an opinion on this. It has something to do with aliens! Until next time…


















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