Middle Age: the absence of Technological Development

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Monday, December 10, 2012

The Dark Ages
            Just like Japan hadn’t the opportunity to develop in the Feudal period, the Middle Age in Europe brought a climate of terror and darkness to people minds, due to the formation of certain dogmas.
            The dogmas of society, religion or any institution don’t allow the increase of our ideals, of our economy, of our society in general. The feudalism is against the evolution of the human communities.
            In the Middle Age, between the 5th and the 15th centuries, people feared the apparitions and, so, feared the evolution. The Technology in this period was essentially related to Mechanics, and not really scientifically elaborated assumptions. The period next to the Middle Age were so productive that we call it the Renaissance, allowing us to understand that, if the dogmas in Middle Age hadn’t proliferated, society would be more technologically developed.

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The Technological Development of Japan

Posted by Miguel Castro Oliveira , Sunday, December 9, 2012

Greater Tokyo Area
            Between the years of 1868 and 1945, the Oriental Empire known as Japan experienced a large economical and cultural transformation, refraining from the feudal ideals which ruled along centuries.
            Today, Japan is a country with a large social development, perhaps the most developed nation in terms of technology. This considerable development enabled Japan to exercise its influence around the rest of the world. Nowadays, the anime and the manga became popular between children and even adults, even more than American and European cartoons. Also, the videogames produced in Japan gain fans in the whole world. Most of the fiction created in Japan reflects its technological development, which influences the ideas of a creative artist like Akira Toriyama.

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