Topic: Can our society and its technology create the impossible? (Read 126 times)

The impossible is called the impossible for a reason. Technology has a pretty far reach right now, but I feel like there will always be something out of reach. If there wasn't anything to chase after to create, I feel like a lot of people would lose interest in creating more things. It's hard to motivate yourself when there's no real end product to reach. People keep striving to make the impossible because they want to. If the impossible was already created, there wouldn't be as much of a push to create more.

Absolutely! Take me back to a decade in the past and I’ll probably do a “say what?” face when you tell me that in the future, I’ll be posting IG stories with weird filters on my face, play Pokemon Go where Pikachu is standing right in front of me or that I could invest in cryptos that basically could replace money. That’s some tech advancement, right? I think the possibilities are endless when it comes to technology. Have you watched Ready Player One? That could be our future.

I realize that these technologies are available. Their just not used to that extent yet. I know that in some countries all prospective mothers are offered DNA tests on their fetuses. It certainly is a big topic for debate. Some people would chose to abort any baby that is at high risk for some disabilities. Sometimes it can just add more stress to the pregnancy, knowing that there's a 25% chance your child will have down syndrome, for example.

 I also thought about Star Trek as I read through this thread. The first thing that comes to mind for me is automatic sliding doors. Haha.

Op I can appreciate you trying to drum up a good conversation. Unfortunately your post is really just a mixer of words without any real message. Try and put out some ideas as to what you think the impossible could be. I think you just threw society into your title, to try and make it stick on this board.

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Some of these advancements are available now in their infancy, They are already striking their own ethical debate. With DNA mapping people wonder where to draw the line, if you discover a fetus is going to be born with an impairment or disease. What constitutes the "right" traits to adjust or breed towards. Much like any advancement there is what it was meant for, and ultimately what its end use is.


My favorite part about a lot of our current technological advancements in communication are that they stem from early Sci-Fi. I always think back to old Star Trek, whenever I'm on video chat.

On the disease front this has become a double edged sword, we do have treatments for many illnesses; but there are organisms that evolve at such a rapid pace when combined with our sometimes needless use of antibiotics they are becoming a threat once again.

In regards to Aliens, I feel our society has placed space exploration on the back burners. If it weren't for private enterprise picking up the torch we may never know what is out there. As far as an impact on our society, I don't feel enough people care what is going on off planet regardless of the possibilities for resources or experiment.

Things that we have an use that are commonplace today were unimaginable for people just 50 years ago. I believe that in 100 years there will be technology that we cannot imagine now. There are so many developments in telecommunications and transportation. I'm sure space travel will become more feasible and commonplace. Medical diagnostics are also improving very quickly. I think eventually there will be very small machines that can test so many things in a person's body. These machines will be able to diagnose patients better than human doctors can. I think that we will use DNA mapping more and more. We will do DNA tests of all children at birth so we can know what illnesses they have a predisposition to. This will be allow doctors to better treat the person throughout life.

I think we have already done it. Look at the I phones and new computers. We have new technologies able to achieve great things. Many centuries ago, we were not even able to cure some diseases. Nowadays very few diseases still resist us. We have develop space technology and our life is not the same. We are moving forward if I can say so. Maybe one day, we will be able to meet aliens. Thanks to our technology we can travel through space. Very soon we will discover the multiverse.

Considering the vast improvement and advancement we are experiencing and doing right now, anything and many things are possible to happen or to exist and manifest. Technology and science brought upon a big change in our world including all disciplines and all sorts of livelihood. Through this information, are we really ought to materialize the impossible? Can our modern society be able to create something unimaginable?