Yay Success!!

I am finally done with my first game of Civ. I made it all the way through the game without being defeated and was the most powerful civilization in my game. I am very impressed with myself because I really thought I was going to die off rather quickly. I am really excited to being trying new tactics even if I know they will not lead to success, but rather test my theories. Over the last 30 or so turns I really focused on advancing my cities technologically and scientifically. I figured this would give my cities the upper hand. Without my consent my cities captured others which was pretty cool. I learned that technology leads to success and rapid growth. I know that technology comes from the roots of guns, germs and steel but what I am going to focus on is the technology and its expansion. At the beginning when I could research things like machine guns or something like that (which I thought was huge technology at the time) it would take a long time and the benefits wouldn't be seen for a while. As I gained the knowledge and research of many technological things the time it took to research them was less. At the end the amount of information my cities could gain was endless. It was really neat to watch my cities grow and modernize. Having the technology allowed my city to become impassable and to dominate my little world that I helped to create.
This is true in the real world today. Many countries that are stuck in the third world setting are having a hard time moving up in the world's technology because they don't even have the basic things needed like food surplus. The first world countries like the US are dominating because we have modern technology that is growing exponentially, even more rapidly everyday. Each new piece of technology is used to help find/create the next newest thing and so on.