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How design (and everything else) has progressed in the last 100 history

I came across another valuable resource today (a new collection of images from the National Archives on Flickr) and couldn't help but pause to reflect on the exciting potential of our world. It was around this time 100 years ago that the first stable aircraft flights and radio broadcasts were taking place. It would be another twenty years before rudimentary television and roughly forty before the first practical computers. Simple infections took people's lives and average life expectancy in the United States was under 50.

Today, less than one hundred years later, a child with access to the World Wide Web can tap much of the cumulative knowledge of mankind. Can you imagine where such awareness could lead?

The 100-year-old web page...

Imagine the potential of children who grow up with access to records of the past such as the Library of Congress' Prints & Photographs archive...

And access to graduate level university teaching...

And to much of the great literature of the age...

In the Ideabook Design Store: Getting It Printed...