Perspectives.....

"When you consider how far the human race has come in just the past 50 years, it's hard not to get a little carried away when fantasizing about what we could be seeing in the near future. There's certainly no shortage of Hollywood blockbusters that harness this imaginative creativity.."

An excerpt from the article on cnet about what are some of the coolest technologies of the future. It leads one to think how much difference can one's perspective make in defining their belief system. If I were to talk of flying cars a hundred years back when cars were the ultimate luxury and flight was an experimental concept, I would have been an object of ridicule. Today most of the educated world will endorse that idea with open arms. The only difference here is that our perspective is newer by a hundred years. Not that we are genetically a whole lot evolved from our ancestors, only that our mindset is shaped by what we have seen and think is possible since the time we were born.
A sudden digression from the topic....isn't it amazing how the human mind works. Whenever we come across any situation, our mind immediately spawns out numerous simultaneous threads and in a split second shows to us on our internal movie screen the snapshots of all incidences in our life that are directly or indirectly connected to the situation in front of us at the current moment. For example as soon as I typed 'think is possible' my mind reminded me of this cool video on mansi's orkut profile. Do make it a point to watch it.
Anyway, the bottomline being that our perspectives define our mindset. So one should always keep oneself open to new experiences....thats the only way to keep your treasure of perspectives growing and your opinions more objective.