The Age Of Technology Is Creating Growing Pains for Humanity
Many events have stopped the world in it’s tracks through humanity’s history. Each major happening jarred nations and individuals alike. Yet there was one factor that we are just now seeing the true impact of: the internet.
More specifically the practically unfettered spread of information. This idea can be freeing for humanity, or it can be damning. It all depends on how the people adapt to understanding information is a fluid entity.
For example: Poverty is a massive problem in America and it’s not as easy as saying “Fix it Government!”. As a firm believer in moving towards the concept of Post-Survival and Post-Scarcity, it’s a ludicrously complicated problem and starts with the individuals in our community and how we treat poverty.
Many of us have been watching the world change over the years, but 2020 has ushered in more change directly to the face of the humanity than we’ve seen in quite some time. Life has always been chaotic for many, and even as racial inequality and oppression are tackled as problems for humanity, they’re hardly the end of our problems.
Read moreAlien Life: Are We Even Advanced Enough To Know Their Existence?
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about humanity discovering Exo-Planets, and we’re finding them ludicrously quickly. Yet a new article has reminded me of a simple, and glaring, loop hole in how we process information. Thanks to this article, and the study it details, I am reminded of the complexity of human perspective and experience.
Scientific study is still extremely flawed despite best efforts from some very intelligent people. While Ben covers the medical industry in his Ted Talk specifically, the factors that make these studies bad science are still just as prominent in searching for alien life. As is with a placebo, do we warp the outcome of our searching by having expectations of what we find?
Could categorizing life as sentient or simply organic be a mistake? For example: If we search for “Alien life” on a planet that cannot house human-like life, what exactly are we searching for? Any organism capable of living in the environment?
Read moreWhat are Cryptocurrencies?
For those of you not entirely sure what cryptocurrencies are, they're designed to be a decentralized system of currency run entirely by a technology called blockchains. The idea is to make a currency valued solely by the users which leads the value of said currency to depend heavily on how the users choose to accept it. Seem difficult? It can be.
However I think it's important to remember this is how currency came to be in the first place. Humanity has warred over numerous resources. One such currency is common and in great quantity in the average household. What could that currency be? Salt.
The value of salt was determined by its uses in food preservation, as well as its perceived scarcity at times. It wasn't until salt became common that we turned to other valuables as currency such as gold, precious metals, and even other resources like oil(current global trade standard). So what does the future of currency look like as society advances? That really all depends on how cryptocurrencies are handled in the coming years.
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