A Truly American Future

Our country’s future, the future of the American people – and indeed the future of the world’s people as they emulate the American example – could well be so spectacularly wonderful that the phrases “shining city on a hill” and “American exceptionalism” are one day looked back upon as historical understatements.

There is no greater gift – no greater secular value – than the opportunity to live a human life upon the Earth, no matter how disadvantageous our circumstances. (As for spiritual values, we “see through a glass darkly” now and look forward to experiences beyond our comprehension.)

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Most of the public is truly unaware of the reality in the world around them.

They see things through their own experiences and biases.

But there are a few (10%-15% use your own numbers?) that have pulled themselves up and continue to provide the base for all the economic wealth produced.

Now the 9 to 5 hourly guy does his part, but the hungry Entrepreneur finds and builds new wealth at an extraordinary pace.

God, Men, Technology, and good hard work are what is needed today.

God have mercy upon us!

Whoever wrote this article is a complete fool.

His valuing of modern technology shows no understanding of what is important in life.

Technology is mostly the business of making more of less, and that is usually a more of lesser quality.

In the process, our lives become burdened with increasing complexity and the natural environment pillaged and polluted.

We may have no choice but to continue to develop technology to cure the ills created by technology, but I very much doubt this process can go on forever.

And despite what scientists tell us about the statistical probability of other technological civilizations existing in the universe, I suspect any civilization that reaches the level of technological development to be able to communicate wirelessly, may be only a century or two or three from self-destructing.

So though there may be vast numbers of planets that should support life and “intelligent” civilizations, the odds of signals from another planet’s brief technological window coinciding with our technological window to hear it, may be slim to none.

I'm not as pessimistic as you seem to be, but certainly the author's mindless rah-rah optimism undercuts his case.

For instance, we certainly ought to be developing more nuclear power, but the claim that this will give us energy "at negligible cost" is ludicrous -- it costs considerable time and energy (and hence money) to mine and refine fissionable material and dispose of radioactive waste (and, no, it's not purely a problem of politican NIMBY obstructionism).

As a man who knows he is a fool, that would make me their king, so here I am the “King of Fools”.

And now I would say how can anyone say that the problem is technology, when the problem is clearly the missuses of technology that usually cause the problem.

I mean no one goes out and says hey let’s get together and mess up the world.

However there is a small percent (Mostly is government) that think they are entitled to tell all of us how we should be living and most recently how we should spend our hard earned wealth.

If we have the foresight to truly launch our country’s hi-tech industries into space we will have the high ground in the next industrial revolution.

But of course that does not happen if men, not technology, goes to war against us.

May God Shield Us all,

Most people I would say tend to be pessimistic about the near term and optimistic about the far term.

But all the rules seem to be up in the air. But as quoted from the article below, we do have a lot going for us.

“But human “circumstances” are improving with breathtaking velocity and acceleration:

•Nuclear energy technology, by far the greatest technological advance in human history, has given us access to unlimited electrical energy at negligible cost. Energy is the currency of technological progress. Energy underlies every scientific and technical advance we have made and will make.

•Communications technology now makes possible instant conversation between everyone on Earth – at a cost that diminishes and a bandwidth that increases almost daily.

•Medical technology is closing in on an ability to assure that every human being has an opportunity to live his 100 years or so in excellent health, while biochemistry is studying ways by which to markedly increase that number of years.

•Computer technology is providing us with the ability to never forget information, to recall information in numerous useful and comprehensive ways and to use information with ever increasing effectiveness.

•Chemical technology is providing a seemingly endless parade of new substances to improve our lives.”

And, scientific knowledge is intrinsically – just by possessing the knowledge – enriching our lives. Surely, walking through a forest and sharing it with plants and animals is a blessing. It is an even greater blessing also to be able to “see” not just the living things, but also the living molecular architectures of which they are comprised.

Our lives are now enriched by viewing and experiencing tiny wonders too small for ordinary eyesight and astronomical wonders too large for that eyesight.

“Our lives are now enriched by viewing and experiencing tiny wonders too small for ordinary eyesight and astronomical wonders too large for that eyesight.”

For an example of the small wonders see “Molecular Visualizations of DNA” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPcT1uUZiE

For an example of an astronomical wonder consider the “ V838 Light Echo” at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93L0IEbUJsk

Awe at what God has revealed should lift every man’s soul.

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