Possibilities, the world and the mind are made to ponder them constantly; the possibilities of wars, the possibility of cures, the possibility of life on distant planets are topics of great interest and limitless application. With books like Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich and the short stories of Isaac Asimov, the view of possibilities shows their boundlessness. Popular telecommunications would have us believe in a future full of creature comforts, environmental perfection, and euphoria. Is that truly possible?
Of course! Just as possible as humans being born without the need for love or computers “smart enough” to calculate the outcome of the next time the Boston Red Socks World Series victory. The possibility of a perfect world has always enticed and driven the machines of innovation, what is to say it should stop anytime soon. Just as love is held as a communal truth, it can not be proven or postulated by experimentation and evaluation. However, possibilities are always uncertainties that have closer relationships with fairy tales and ghost stories, than realistic fact.
Possible futures will always exist, on both sides of the spectrum. In one case we, Homo sapiens, just might find ourselves in a future where every whelm is heeded. Where exercise is an extinct childhood disease. Taking as an example, America finds itself on the brink of an incurable affliction of appetite. While others suffer hunger, resources and science is being made to accommodate this epidemic.
The end of exercise coming about by some technological advances that some branch of bio genetic science provides. Futures where we do not even have to drive ourselves to work, if the necessity of work itself is not eradicated as well. Are such advances in technology possible? Yes, history has shown that the human animal’s ingenuity can never be contained, hindered, or dissuaded. In our pursuit of pleasure, we as a society will do everything to accomplish our goal. Now, do not get me wrong, everyone is not so selfish, but sadly those that have the resources control the sources needed for creating machines, medicines, and technology. An extremely sad example of a principle I’ll cover later; survival of the fittest.
Now the other side of the spectrum is complete and utter chaos. The apocalyptic scenes we all have seen in our dreams or thoughts. Some of which have been successfully transferred to quality media in Technicolor. Some scenarios find the human race annihilated by weapons of mass destruction. Some cover a future destroyed by the selfishness of one individual or group of individuals in pursuit of power. Neither of these preceding scenarios seems more plausible than the one presented by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, James Cameron, or Larry & Andy Wachowski.
A future in which mans pursuit of the creation of comforts in the forms of android, Cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and robots leads to the ultimate demise of the human race. In most cases these self-aware beings act just as human beings, desiring only to survive and procreate. Their only problematic factor being the existence of human beings, who in most of these apocalyptic situations have been classified by their creations as viruses. A likely future as well? Possibility is the child of desire and intelligence; if it can be though up it can be made true.
Of course! Just as possible as humans being born without the need for love or computers “smart enough” to calculate the outcome of the next time the Boston Red Socks World Series victory. The possibility of a perfect world has always enticed and driven the machines of innovation, what is to say it should stop anytime soon. Just as love is held as a communal truth, it can not be proven or postulated by experimentation and evaluation. However, possibilities are always uncertainties that have closer relationships with fairy tales and ghost stories, than realistic fact.
Possible futures will always exist, on both sides of the spectrum. In one case we, Homo sapiens, just might find ourselves in a future where every whelm is heeded. Where exercise is an extinct childhood disease. Taking as an example, America finds itself on the brink of an incurable affliction of appetite. While others suffer hunger, resources and science is being made to accommodate this epidemic.
The end of exercise coming about by some technological advances that some branch of bio genetic science provides. Futures where we do not even have to drive ourselves to work, if the necessity of work itself is not eradicated as well. Are such advances in technology possible? Yes, history has shown that the human animal’s ingenuity can never be contained, hindered, or dissuaded. In our pursuit of pleasure, we as a society will do everything to accomplish our goal. Now, do not get me wrong, everyone is not so selfish, but sadly those that have the resources control the sources needed for creating machines, medicines, and technology. An extremely sad example of a principle I’ll cover later; survival of the fittest.
Now the other side of the spectrum is complete and utter chaos. The apocalyptic scenes we all have seen in our dreams or thoughts. Some of which have been successfully transferred to quality media in Technicolor. Some scenarios find the human race annihilated by weapons of mass destruction. Some cover a future destroyed by the selfishness of one individual or group of individuals in pursuit of power. Neither of these preceding scenarios seems more plausible than the one presented by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, James Cameron, or Larry & Andy Wachowski.
A future in which mans pursuit of the creation of comforts in the forms of android, Cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and robots leads to the ultimate demise of the human race. In most cases these self-aware beings act just as human beings, desiring only to survive and procreate. Their only problematic factor being the existence of human beings, who in most of these apocalyptic situations have been classified by their creations as viruses. A likely future as well? Possibility is the child of desire and intelligence; if it can be though up it can be made true.
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