Progress and innovation do not move in a straight line. They don’t travel neatly from point A to point B. They are not linear. In fact, it often appears that progress is random; leaping forward in one area while stagnating or even regressing in another.
Humankind has evolved sufficiently to send men and women into space; they have walked on the Moon. Man-made craft have explored to the outer edges of our solar system. And yet there are vast stretches of the Earth’s oceans that remain unexplored. We are still documenting newly discovered animals and plants that have been right here under our very noses for millennia.
In the field of medicine, we can perform life-saving surgery on a baby that is still in its mother’s womb. We can transplant kidneys, lungs, livers, and even hearts from one patient to another. We have cured a multitude of deadly diseases. And yet, the common cold prevails.
We have evolved to become the dominant species on Earth. And yet, for all our supposed intelligence and brain power, we can’t stop a single wasp from ruining a picnic, a plague of locusts from destroying our crops, or mosquitoes from spreading deadly diseases and being the biggest killer on the planet.
And here in the field of demolition and construction equipment, we are, frankly, no better.
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