Transense: Automotive Sensor IPR for Honeywell, Michelin & The World.

pb... Because technology is just another manifestation of Culture. "Technology" is still fairly young and perhaps even after the Industrial Revolution we're still only a step or two up from cave drawings. Technology only feels like it's advancing at a rapid pace because it's become almost totally pervasive and now effects every part of (Western) living, but taking electronics as an example it's still only founded on a very few basic principles. Give Humanity another few thousand years and just as the public has come to know and love the classical Grand Masters (Chinese / Greek Philosophers etc) through access and learning, so will aspects of Classical Technolgy slip into an Artform. Some already has, thus becoming "timeless". One theory that exists is that mankind currently lives in a window of opportunity: If we don't get certain things achieved in the next few hundred years, quite major things like free and sustainable clean energy, inter-stellar Space travel then we will never solve things like World Poverty/Conflict, the Environment and the Earth's eventual demise: Resources will dry-up before technology is able to release us from unsustainable dependancies.