The modern world brings its pressures because at every turn the latest fashion is presented, the ideas of the latest designers who use colors and patterns to capture our imaginations, whether it is a new dress style, a change in shoe design or new thoughts on accessories.
The marketplace is ever changing and the impact of that change spreads around the world instantly via the internet, satellite television and film. Likewise, the influences on designers can come from old traditional styles, the Japanese traditional shoes is a good example.
Shoes were originally very basic items to protect the feet but as the centuries wore on, they became much more. In the work environment protection was still important in the dangerous environment of manufacturing or mining. They became much more outside work with comfort being very important.
Once man made materials were added to the list of materials used in shoe manufacture, and once mass production started, a whole new shoe scene developed.
Gabor shoes became popular with men and women. Gabor design catered for the most fashion conscious women, and men had similar tastes in fashionable footwear.
Some fashions are merely the use of the previous ideas, but invention is another thing, and the Nobel Awards recognize the importance of these inventions.
None of the advances in science and technology mean much but the late Hungarian refugee, Denis Gabor was recognized for his invention of holography almost forty years ago, nearly a decade before his death.
Once the laser was invented in the early sixties, the hologram became available and its use in many facets of life, particularly in the security field relating to credit cards, passports and currency itself.
There are high levels of sophisticated crime, white collar crime we call it, frauds and counterfeiting and the pressure to identify and solve those crimes has grown. Prevention is better than solving the crime and the hologram became a very useful tool in the prevention because it made counterfeiting so much more difficult.
As the world has become a more dangerous place and identity crime spreads allied to the attempts of terrorists to access places otherwise denied, the hologram has played a role in society's defense.
The dangers still exist and there are numerous examples of how determined people can break through the strongest of barriers as they attempt to achieve their ends. Parts of the First World feel threatened at every turn, and the layman really has no idea the lengths to which their governments need to go to defend their citizens.
Complacency is dangerous, and it all too easy to for us to allow it to creep into us as individuals. Governments are structured in such a way that complacency can only enter the system if budgets demand economies within the country's budget. That has yet to happen, we must hope.
