Surviving Projects: Movie Analysis

Since the beginning of human beings, humans have possessed this special characteristic of knowledge that makes them ask why to problems that do not seem to work as they please. Our knowledge has moved us forward considerably and gave us a desire to make improvements to how we live. For example in the film Surviving Projects, a chimpanzee was trained to place a block upright but one day the chimp was puzzled when the trainer had slanted the bottom of the block. The chimp did not have enough knowledge to conclude that the block was slanted. Next they tried the same strategy on the youth who could easily, after a few failures, concluded that the block could not sit upright. Sometimes, this knowledge can lead us to progress traps. Progress traps meaning the human individuals believing they are advancing but actually forming new troubles that may not be solvable. As displayed in the film Surviving Projects, the individuals during the time of mammoths would hunt these animals with the weapons they made with their hands. Soon, with the human’s amazing knowledge, they figured out that they could lead a herd of mammoths off cliffs. Although this action seemed great for these hunters, it was wiping out the population of the mammoth species till they were extinct. Although this knowledge could be a threat, it has led us to globalized or amazingly more developed world.

Throughout history, with the very knowledgeable characteristics human beings possess, the individuals have been able to integrate all the major global aspects leading to a flatter or globalized world.
Established during 206 BC, the Silk Road, was constructed in between China and the Mediterranean sea.

These individuals traveled the Silk Road to exchange knowledge, trade merchandise or even to start new lives in different locations. In 1492, Columbus set off on his voyage across the sea without any ability to contact any personnel far from his ships. As he came back after his discoveries the Europeans were totally flabbergasted that he believed the earth was spherical. These discoveries Columbus created and many other globalizing advancements to 1800s flattened the world from a size large to a size

medium.
Many years later, the industrial revolution took place advancing transportation and communication tremendously. The railroads, the printing press, and many other advancements left the Silk Road in the dust. Individuals and goods could now travel tremendously faster domestically and internationally. Individuals now could live in new locations to start their lives and jobs to support their families. The industrial revolution and many other advancements globalized the world from a size medium to a size small.
Today, the fact that we are able to access Google Earth, and travel to the locations Columbus discovered in under a couple of seconds is also totally flabbergasting. We went from sending individuals across a long road to finally be able to sell their goods to support their families to boxing a good to ship domestically or internationally. Soon, our individuals will have constructed drones to fly across America dropping off goods in a tap of a button. The access to our cyberspace and ability to roam the world has warped our world’s demographics immensely and also has allowed the playing field to flatten for humans of all over the world. The world during this era has now flattened from a size small to a very tiny size. Who knows where the human race will take us in the next few years. The earth is left to us to protect, but without the patience of our human race, we may have to move our technologies, and humans to Mars to set up shop for our new generations to come.