AN imaginative piece of writing imagining the future advancements in the field of science It has no boundaries “This is life Jim, but not as we know it”. These famous words uttered I Captain Kirk from Start Trek is actually coming true.
The 1980’s were great and some of what was seen on televisions then is with us now. The mobile phones, Internet, micro chips, LED TVs, credit cards… I could go and on well we have not got teleportation yet…not yet! the world is changing space travel, in the coming decades or even years, could become a real just as colonizing planets like Mars, Jupiter, etc. and even other galaxies But, how would it work? Will there be parallel governments, different tax and insurance? Who knows? But will it be for the better?
As technology moves at a break neck speed, so are the potential problems that could be created by human beings on this beautiful planet of ours. Global warming, pollution, increasing population, people living longer, deadly pandemic viruses lurking in the corner, GM crops, cloning, you name it and there are hidden catastrophes that may force us down this route so let us prepare ourselves, anyway.
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But does that not create a problem in itself? Does it let us and our Governments wriggle out of the problems of over consumption and the pressures on the planet?
Oh! This planet is full dear but we have another one to go to and spoil….Does it not take us away from the responsibility of looking after this planet and its animals and plants other than humans? Are they, dispensable because, we as species have progressed? Some will say ‘Yes’, that’s what technology does-it changes the nature of problems and opens up new possibilities, some unpalatable.
Others will say “No”, greed and lack of ethics does that, too.
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Ethical and moral views say new possibilities do not change our responsibility to the present and the past. A man, who does not understand his history, has no future. We will make the same mistakes because we have given up on solving our past. So going back to Captain Kirk, I say “Beam me up Scottie. I am going home, back to Earth, God speed”.