The Fruits We Bare

Animals are born with natural ability and instinct; most unable to expand their "knowledge." Man is born blank, he must be taught everything he knows.

Technology is the fruit born of the noosphere of the human species. This is the key factor that follows the awareness of being more than a carnal creature. Once man evolved, if one believes in evolution, from being simple Homo Sapiens into Homo Sapiens Sapiens, meaning "Man Doubly wise", knowledge and wisdom where no longer confined in the body but evolved into a trait passable by heretical progression. Man's evolution was no longer focused in his physical aspects as shown in the skull evidence and stature of Homo Habilis and the recently discovered hobbits Homo Floresiensis of the island of Flores.

This symbolic thought communication, knowledge passed between individuals through symbols, gives rise to the relationship between the metaphysical world that knowledge inhabits and the physical world of the brain. Communication of our thoughts allows a person to no longer represent him or herself alone, but everyone that has ever influenced that person’s thought processes; as to a point of altering the paths and decisions of this person. Nature has the same understanding of communication; this becomes evident in animals demonstrating hunting in packs. Even in the simplistic examples given to us by animals such as: wolves, alligators, orca whales, and even insects; we find some level of higher communication is necessary to accomplish a given community task. Without cooperation these "primal" creatures would have long gone extinct like so many others.

By being able to tap the resources from our past, man has the ability to draw upon the experience of others and using these examples, come to a better understanding of the environment and experiments he has attempted. As mentioned in the Philosophies on God section, a driving force behind development is questioning the world around us. The more people that gather under a single belief or category of questioning the more minds we apply to any application. This gives rise to a very peculiar realization. As more minds come to the common ground of desiring more than the given circumstances they find themselves, the more effective their development can be. We have all heard the saying, "two heads are better than one," but how powerful is the heads of an entire planet when applied to any given task.

We go back to the planet Terranus. Desiring to salvage the environment they have degenerated with years of pollutants and waste, the Terranians decide to focus on the most inefficient component of their world, themselves. Putting aside the thought that embryos are alive, to avoid the obvious moral conflict, the Terranians begin to explore their biological pathways. Realizing that - though nature did it's job in constructing - they are heavily under productive. For what they take in they do not put out as much as they could. They realize that the reason their world is in such bad shape is not only because of the by-products of their existence but also because of the uselessness of the outcome of their biological systems.

In an attempt to correct these problems, the Terranians develop new organelle that process the energy input in more efficient processes creating less waste and more productivity. Doing this by combining their own biology with the hardware available to them. However, due to the complexity involved in controlling DNA, RNA, and chromosome behavior they come to discover a subspecies, cyborgs; the first waste by-produce of their active role in evolving.

Human Recorded History / The Likely Future

1.1 Visions of Grandeur

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.