Apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection? Discuss.
It is true that apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection. There are lot of example which was first seemed to be foolish and illogical but now it is the reality. If Thomas Alva Edison thought about the bulb in the seek of light and invented it, if Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invented telephone then it would have been impossible to believe that we can talk with people far from ourselves. So all these things which had seemed to be illogical but it turned into reality and made our lives easier than before. Similarly, it was also an illogical thing that we can travel from one place to another just like a time machine in the matter of time but it all get invented in the form of rail. So illogical things sometimes turns out to be futuristic projection.
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