֎ The first significant example of a railroad train was in 1825. By the 1860s trains had replaced most canal and river trade. Unless one was engaged in commerce, daily life still was limited to how far a horse could travel, how fast, how much weight it could pull, how much it could lift, and was the only means to travel into town.

The first marketable automobile was built in 1886. It wasn’t until 1908 when Henry Ford began mass production of automobiles. Before then, daily society was dependent on the limitations of the horse to execute daily chores and social life.

In 1969, just 63 years later, men were walking on the moon. Interstates, automobiles, busses, trucks, trains, farm equipment, airplanes and shuttles left the horse and its associated cultures in a forgotten past.

֎ The first public radio broadcasting network was established in 1924 when AT&T linked 12 stations around New York City using telephone lines. The first global network using telephone technology was established in 1950. Televisions were a public utility by 1954.

A computer was taught to play checkers in 1951. The actual development for broad use of AI was in 1956.

The first satellite global network was launched in 1958.

The internet was launched by the military in 1965.

The first Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) was implemented in Finland in 1991.

The original social media application occurred in 1975, Facebook began in 1995, Twitter in 2015.

In 2023, just 72 years after the first network, the entire planet is in the midst of a massive culture change affecting every behavior from war and the definition of a nation to everyday life with artificial humans. Will marriage to a sex doll become legitimate?

Oh, for the limitations of a horse.

Ancient Mariner