Civilized people are, if nothing else, adaptable. Seventy-four years ago today, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and a few years later America dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. Today, we operate in the world like friends.
As the years passed, Japan became a primary supplier of electronics to America. Sony, a prominent Japanese electronics company purchased Columbia Pictures Entertainment in 1991 and the Sony name now appears on thousands of American movie screens. Additionally, Sony makes TVs and sells them to Americans. We used to make TVs too.
As a civilization, we are adaptable. At least we have been because, among other things, information was not easy to store and recall. However, it is now. Today, Facebook sent me a link to a photo that was taken 6 years ago. Our adaptability to tragic events may not be so easy in the future when the events are more easily recalled. Writers have already exhausted the notion that the world is getting smaller, but the ability to quickly recall records of time is collapsing too. e.g. "Joe Smith just died. Here is a link to his Facebook for a record of his life. Click here to filter images of Joe slumped over in his wheel chair on his 91st birthday."
In the future, it may not be so easy to forgive and forget when the images of events, good or bad, are easily retrieved and sent to you automatically as a reminder. San Bernadino photos will only be a click away.
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