Now and Then: Shift Happens

For more info on this presentation, visit FarrFeed, which also provides our daily FotoFeed at the top right-hand corner of DFNM. Remember when 1984, Brave New World and 2001: A Space Odyssey were amazingly futuristic? Now we can easily partake of genuine, up-close photos of Saturn from NASA's Cassini project, including a batch of recently released dazzlers:

Blinding Saturn
Tourniquet Shadows
Symmetry in Shadow

Technology can be fabulous (or incredibly damaging). Unfortunately, it's our flawed and still primitive human character that most needs improvement and evolution, not our machines. Will our conciousness ever move up an octave, exponentially, like our science? 

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