Its madness to contemplate. Technology is spiking and becoming readily available to the common man. Science itself is stumped at certain questions now legitimately posed about the very matter we are composed of... The internet is breathing new life into social networking, learning, communication. For the first time each individual has a chance to experience the world as it is seen and presented by other individuals. human equality is slowly becoming recognized and overcome on a global scale(i dont know how confidant i am with that statement but we are sure working well together up north here).. individuality is reaching a point its never been before. generation WHY is questioning the hell out of everything they can get their hands on. it will be a bright future for us all...yet there are a few things on my mind which pose a critical problem to the advancement of our generation.
1)NUKES. The ammount of nukes that exist, the ammount of potential destruction they could cause, and the domino effect of a single one of them being launched. if there is anything in this world that could hault civilization as we know it, i would have to go with the nukes on this one.
2)ENERGY, and the oddly slow progress made in clean self sustaining energy sources. Imagine if someone was to come up with a way to make widespread energy so abundant that it was completely free, forever, for everyone? It seems possible, and with the impressive technological finesse our generation possesses wouldnt you think its even probable if not inevitable?(i heard a story once about a normal guy who was an engineer..he made a machine which ran on itself (over unity)..people came, took the machine, and instructed him never to dabble in such things again) which brings me to my last dismal concern...what good is equality and abundance if it doesnt generate.............
3)PROFIT.(think outside the box people!)Profit is the seed of greed. The cause of most if not all corruption. the very nature of profit strikes a chord of wrongness inside of me. from where i stand money seems to be the most powerful driving force in whole wide world. and one doesnt need to look very hard to see its done more harm than good. I dont fully understand the problem, and I dont have the slightest clue as to its solution, but the more I learn about money the more it strikes me as the monster of our age. This issue of profit im sure ties deeply into my other two concerns for our future. (nukes are pretty clearly a sign of wealth, success, power, of a country)(you just cant turn a buck off of perfect abundant free energy)
I dunno guys, you asked, and you recieved my thoughts on the subject. I encourage feedback and debate on my statements as i know very little in a technical sense. these are just the general ideas and notions i've accumulated in my endless curiousity on our future and the true nature of whats really going on here.
Thank you so much Apollo. A brilliant idea for a thread.