Our planet currently is changing at a rapid pace. A pace at which the old has to make way for the new as it is just not good enough. Nowadays we have the technology to make everything faster and easier. Especially in terms of architecture. Modern architecture is quick, simple and practical. The basic idea is get more from the little you have. But this wasn't the case in ancient Greece, Rome, India, Persia, China, Japan and many other places a long time ago. Of course there were small practical buildings but there were even more splendid palaces, estates, gardens, forts, villas and so much more. It was almost like a show of power and a symbol of pride. A kingdom couldn't just claim to be wealthy, they had to look wealthy. Indubitably this doesn't imply that all their citizens were happy and having it made for them but it does show their mentality. A lot of ancient architecture still survives today. And this shows how they built it to last the centuries. They built it so that future generations would remember them. The stone columns, walls, pillars, statues, coliseums amphitheatres, palaces or in short everything was hand crafted and designed painfully. This forced me to think what our legacy was. What would we be leaving behind for our descendants? The Shard? The Burj Khalifa? I have a feeling that at one point in the future these would fall into the "just another old building category". Now I am not suggesting for one moment we have to rapidly start building monuments that would last till the end of time. That is just a waste of precious time and taxpayers hard earned money in the modern world. Rather I am suggesting to think about the legacy we leave behind. Rather than completely destroying the world we could try and make sure human being actually make it as a species for a billion years more. We might not be remembered but at least we would have tried to ensure that there is someone to admire the same monument that we did for aeons and aeons more.