Rememberance Day seems particularly poignant at this time. I’m lead to wonder how modern society would cope with an ordeal of the magnitude of, say, the Second World War. Of course, it’s extremely unlikely that we will ever witness such a thing, thanks to the efforts of the millions who fought to protect out way of life, but if the Second World War had taken place seventy years later than it did, how different would the world be as a result?