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Originally Posted by island911
First our doctors need to cure sleeping. I mean, what good is sleeping? It's just wrong, and a waste of time.
When will everyone realize that man is above and outside of nature and he Controls nature -not the other way around?
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It seems like "our" whole existence has been about taming and/or trying to control nature to some degree.
We have antibiotics and such medicines and also gene based treatments. We've gone from living in caves to climate controlled structures and we have some very small improvements at making rain. Nothing significant in controlling weather even on a local scale, but our understanding is increasing.
There are folks working on creating synthetic life and we harness energy from nature to create power.
I don't think these paths to controlling nature and making the world more hospitable will end. I don't mean to say that all of the above is good, but we can judge for ourselves what has been successful and what has failed to date.
I see humanity continuing to increase life spans, heal diseases and make faster and more efficient computing machines and artificial life forms. My outlook is generally positive but acknowledge the fact that us humans could also seriously frack things up.
Go back only 100 years and take at look at life on Earth then; we've made some excellent progress, IMO, and we're only getting started.
FWIW.
Best,
Kurt