The world’s history may be fascinating, but most of it is in the past now. People think that other than learning a lesson from our ancestors’ mistakes, we can’t gain much from history. They fail to understand that we are standing on the success of inventors who lived in the past and were able to make their inventions in limiting circumstances. Had they not given us a good start, we would not have made much progress in the present. However, not all countries consider the past to be useless. They understand the value of history. But only a few nations in the world are as deeply connected to their roots as the Icelanders.
The modern world has undergone a lot of changes. Even if you erase all the gadgets and technology, it will still be completely different from the world of the past. Change means discarding old values and picking up new ones. Every culture and language has gone through some type of upgrade. Maybe none of them had survived if they had not been updated. But the Icelanders proved that survival without change is possible.