Module 12

 Finally a reading that I can relate to! I am going to open up to all my readers and explain some of my thoughts and feelings that I process on a daily basis. I have always felt uneasy about the future. Though, I'm not the type to bite on doomsday theories. I have always thought that I think or know too much. It would be important to understand that I am a recovering meth addict of a binge that lasted the better part of ten years. During this period of my life I have began to think in teams of what I would consider 'deeper than most.' Lets get one thing straight, while it is true that I did suffer from paranoid delusions, these dilutions steamed from great truths. I have been clean almost six years, however some of my delusions still haunt me, not because I am delusional, but because I know Earth will be facing troubles of grave consequence in the future.

I have always been big into science, excelling past most of my peers in high-school, being pro-active in science and environmental groups. I have spend countless hours studying astronomy and earth sciences. I have also heavily contemplated doomsday theories, trying to collect all the supposed evidence these doomsday theorists employ, apply my own understanding of science, and think for myself about weather they are right or wrong. In the end I find most doomsday theories de-bunk themselves. However, during the most intense moments of my life, worldly thoughts would drive me insane. I even to the point where counseling and anti-anxiety pills were necessary. Though I was a meth addict and suffering from delusions and paranoia, it didn't mean that I was wrong about what was bothering me. Nor does it mean I was stupid, these problems are real, I knew it then and I know it now. And this reading only adds to my list of things to worry about. I am just grateful that I can now live a normal life. I take everything in stride despite the knowledge I posses.

My number one concern for this planet is over-population. It has always been my personal assessment that we humans can not control our sex drives, it is in our programming to reproduce and we will continue to do so at an exponential rate! In the future we will have no other choice but to move on to another planet or dimension so that we can virus off it, just as we have done to the Earth. But to accomplish such a feat would mean massive improvements in technology, which leads us to a catch 22. How can we become so technologically advanced that we can travel to another solar system and/or dimension, with out having to deal with the problems that Bill Joy describes in his article “Why the future doesn't need us?”

The only correct answers are within the article itself. First, we must agree as a species as to what we what and where we want to go. Second, we must learn to accept other's religions and ideologies, so that we are able to work together. And third, above all costs, be ethical and moral about how we advance in our technology. What I am talking about is world-peace and the end of greed. So, for all practical intents and purposes I could end this blog right now. Being that world peace is about as possible as time-travel, and greed is so very abundant and in many forms.But I won't!

Space-travel or even dimensional-travel that would solve the unstoppable problem of world over- population, might and could very well be a possibly in the future, or so lets hope. However we are not close to achieving this kind of technology and it would only make sense that to achieve higher technologies, we must advance the technologies that we have now. I could very well see an artificial-intelligence of some sort as the only possible brain that could conceive such scientific notions that might be required for our goal of space/dimensional travel. So we can not stop building on what we already know, we just have to be responsible and ethical about it. There is a difference between, being able thinking for yourself and being able to feel emotions. As far as A.I. is concerned, as long as emotions are kept out of the computer loop I think we would be OK.

I could also very well see nanotechnology (GNR) uses for materials required in such a feat as space-travel. The subject of nanotechnology is nothing new to me, however I haven't thought about it for some time. I remember reading a sci-fi book by Micheal Crichton titled “Prey.” This book was about nanotechnological, intelligent machines the size of germs that were made to cure all types of desease. Supposedly, they were to enter the body and attack just the virus, bacteria, or cancer. However these machines acquired a mind of there own and went on a killing spree. This kind of technology sound very scary, but it too must be explored for the sake of our future. But can this done safely? Being built in the private sector!

There are a lot of questions that I don't have the answers to. What I do know is that there are many things to be afraid of, but we can not live our lives in fear. If we do what's the point? I was born and raised a Christian. For the better part of my life I have always believed in God and Jesus. However, because of my great understanding of science I have began to question. This is a personal matter that I deal with on a daily basis. But I truly hope there is a loving and merciful god. I want to believe that more then anything. Besides, I can not think of anything better to intervene with the problems of our future than that of the second coming of Christ!