Why trust GreenbotIs technology ruining society? According to research, smartphones cause us to have lower-quality conversations, is destroying our ability to retain information, social networks are damaging our relationships. If that’s not enough proof that modern-day technology might not be quite as life-improving as the Industrial Revolution, check out how today’s tech (particularly smartphones, the Internet, social networks) would have changed important historical events figures. You might think Columbus would have been better off if he’d found the quickest trade route to India, but you’d be wrong!
Columbus would have actually led in India
Fastest route to India? Maps has you covered.
Mona sa would have a hot Instagram account
#Gioconda #DaVinci #onardoIsMyHomie #Enigma #Smile #ereAmIoking
Martin ther’s 95 Theses would have been a Change.org petition
y bother going outside to nail a document to a church door when you can do it all from your smartphone?
Shakespeare would have been a Twitter phenomenon
Imagine if Shakespeare’s lengthy plays sonnets could be distilled into thouss of 140-character tweets.
Newton would have opened a smartphone repair shop
obably would have kept the secret of universal gravity to himself, too. “ have no idea why your phone drops the screen breaks when you let go of it…”
Revere would have just sent a text
Revere’s ride would have been less epic (or rather, non-existent), but way more efficient.
Betsy Ross would have been a small-time Etsy seller
But she would have been buried under a mountain of other Etsy sellers selling knock-off flags.
The moon ling would have been documented with a selfie
Buzz drin Oh wait, it was. Actually, Buzz drin took the first space selfie three years before the moon ling, in 1966.
