I heard on the radio a headline from an Edwardian newspaper, and it made me laugh. It was so complicated, academic and theoretical. That was a time when things were slow, ponderous and laborious, people had time to stop, think, read, measure up an argument, consider a concept and cope with long-winded titles designed to explore an idea, present a scenario, put forward a point, all carefully constructed within a by-gone language and mind-set.
And today’s world is poles apart; we are forever rushing about, ideas are caught, processed and discarded, information slips through our fingers in lightening speed, responses are immediate, poignant and focused, trends and news come and go in a twinkling of an eye, the media where these concepts are placed, produced, published and processed changes rapidly, archives fill up fast with old stuff maturing at an alarming pace, the internet and social media grows incredibly fast at such a rate that would be inconceivable to the Edwardians.
It’s amazing that in just 100 years mankind can evolve into something so totally different.
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