3/09/2010
I look at the world through sad eyes. I don't know if its in our
nature to take care of ourselves, or it's a habit that's grown over
the years but when one for every twelve of us is malnourished [1], it
should become clear that something is severely wrong. Regardless of
whether it is our nature to ensure we are on stable ground first, our
actions should be first directed to those who are left behind, not on
widening the gap.
Technology is reaching a point where in the near future (< 100 years)
every advance will be composed of more innovation that all that
came before it. Despite the many problems that will be solved by this
event, I can bet that your first thought was not about helping the
less advantaged.
Many groups frequently announce their aims to help humanity,
and take us into the next era ie. Cryonics, Amplified Intelligence,
Brain Interfaces, Superior Genetics, Deep Space Exploration(?), and
tacked onto the end, a cure for poverty. It seems that this last goal
will be somewhat of a by product of the rest. That century long
suspended animation will both be affordable to those in poverty and
advantageous.
One key factor that these groups frequently shuffle away from is
money. Strangely enough, poor people don't have much money. It just so
happens that money is also another problem that will be solved along
the way of these advances. Well, it hasn't been solved yet. 10,000 years
and we're only becoming more separated by the financial
instruments that we create. A college student currently can't
even buy a car, how is a homeless poverty stricken uneducated person
meant to buy his way into the stream of innovations that those at the
forefront of technology development desire to create? This person will
most definitely be unable to afford full Cryonic protection for his
family, let alone a full spectrum vaccination for one of his 4
children, who by the way contracted AIDs during their childbirth (yes
it will still be an issue in many locations).
I'm going to prematurely end this piece of writing, on the issue of
money. I'm attempting to write because I feel it will be an effective
tool for following the paths that my thoughts discover. It will also
be handy to keep track of a starting point.
It's a little scary writing something like this under your real
name, however I'm going to hide behind the fact that this will be
rewritten, and rewritten, and hopefully get a little stronger along
the way.
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