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Future of Science
June 20, 2009 - 08:40 PM
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What do you think the most important issues in science and technology are, and what sort of research and developments should people be focusing on? Is it acceptable to fund, say, space programs when people are starving? With many contenious issues such as GM foods, warfare etc. being debated what are the issues that are really important?
Has science become too specialised and beyond the grasp of everyday people? And if it is, is it important to educate people more about current topics?
How can we use scientific knowledge for peace and prosperity?
Does anyone have any thoughts on this topic? Please share if you do!
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Re: Future of Science
July 21, 2009 - 11:43 AM
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I know what you're saying. Like the Watchmen said (read the graphic novel and you'll never regret it), we'd spend $2 billion to send an astronaut into space yet we wouldn't spend that money to save a starving child... or several hundred thousand, with that money.
And I think, with companies like GM and many others, since they've crashed we should let them burn. Government keeps them so they can get back their debts... then they increase the company's debt to them. Check out this article, interestingly titled "The Zombie Apocalypse Will Eat Our Economy":
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/01/23/the-zombie-apocalypse-will-eat-our-economy.aspx
Basically it says that we should stop feeding companies that have failed to keep themselves alive with our taxpayer's money. One excellent quote from aforementioned article: "It simply takes capital away from healthy companies (and individuals). It's wasteful and counterproductive, and starves the healthy (much like zombies prey on the living). And of course there's that darn moral hazard thing again."
My own personal theory is that science is limitless, but we have to be careful with those limits because science can make the world seem like a wonderful place but what it's actually doing is masking all the bad in the world; it makes the bad parts easier to ignore. Huh I thought of that, when I thought of what would happen if we brought somebody from the 16th century to the 21st. I bet they'd be pretty awestruck at the technology and think the world's better, and it'd be so captivating they wouldn't notice that people are still dying and starving in poverty everywhere. Technology does that; makes the bad stuff easier to ignore. Escapism, much?
Edit: nice thread, by the way.
This post was edited on: 2009-07-21 at 12:48 PM by: MaryanneC
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Re: Future of Science
August 6, 2009 - 12:15 PM
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The future of science is looking beyond this planet to one where humans can live and breathe. But is this all science is for? What about gentically manufactured foods. They would be cheap and accessible to everyone, and would reduce our impact on the environment. Before we look beyond our world i believe we must first look at and solve the current problems that threaten to destroy our world before the stasrs are ever reached.
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Re: Future of Science
February 2, 2010 - 09:56 PM
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The Future of Science, what a title. It would seem that science has allowed for the convenient and luxurious to be more profane, more necessary. It also has created a new breed of moronic people who care nothing of the 4 dimensions in which they reside. Science has allowed for weapons to become more efficient killing machines, and allowed for a new breed of humanity who see violent acts as a way to control the human psyche (win hearts and minds any one?).
The future of science most likely continue down the same destructive paths taken during the past 200 years.
Who knows, WWIII could happen within the next 10 years. But first, let us use scientific methods to observe and analyze why we fight. It is because of energy needs and political or property related issues between countries and their governments. We can't help that some governments want to annex neighbors, it happens. But we don't have to fight over energy, it is a terrible excuse to kill a human being over something as simple and natural as energy. It is the most free object in the universe. Energy surrounds us, its in every little thing. Should not be this difficult to harness.
We all know it is entirely plausible that we share information of new technologies that allow for free electrical energy generation, even to the people who can't "afford it". It could be a world worth living in, our great grand children would be forever greatful to we who are presently existing.
Steer science toward harnessing free energy, free in the sense that money would essentially become irrelevant to our perception of daily motion. Imagine the world where you can move freely (with most traffic and legal codes still in place to keep a safe living environment), wouldn't it be nice to not have to think about how you are going to pay for the gasoline to transport you to the next destination?
However, as most people conclude, it is up to the ones who are responsible for the culmination of a fossil fueled society to change their ways and use their vast amounts of wealth, which accumulated through out the oil-rush of the past two centuries, and fuel a new movement and advertisement campaign towards accepting free energy into daily life, non-profit all the way!
It's too much to ask though I know, reality won't happen this way and we all know it. Greed and Insecurity...the greatest enemy of good people.
This post was edited on: 2010-02-02 at 10:08 PM by: sakyacalsoyas1
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Re: Future of Science
February 2, 2010 - 10:25 PM
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I think the future of science will divert from computing into biotechnology.
In all honesty, People will study in advance where they can make the most money. and now that computer industry is full of qualified labourers and innovation thinkers, they will move to biotechnology. Yet the biggest obsticale is still the fact that people must develop everything induvidually as there is a closed top on all innovative technology.
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Re: Future of Science
February 2, 2010 - 11:22 PM
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At present the people use the modern technology to invent new things....But if people need food and water it is useless of giving science knowledge for them...Im not saying that inventing new things to the world is useless ....It is very important to invent and research new thing but we should not forget about the poverty of the people and the children dying of hunger....
We should 1st let them to a good physical state and start educate them using technology......
We can make the world more brighter if we could help the poverty,.
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Re: Future of Science
February 2, 2010 - 11:34 PM
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Its all well and good assuming to position to simply 'solve world poverty' But there are steps needed to get there. and currently in the world countrys are not advanced enough to help out other countrys when having troubles keeping their own out of poverty. We need to invent and create ways to get everybody a higher level before we can start disolving such problems
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Re: Future of Science
February 3, 2010 - 09:37 AM
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you've got the point ...due to unwanted war fares and those stuff keep the peoples tax money wasting wasting and ....usless ....
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