A question.
I have a feeling from reading above posts that there is an optimistic view that science will give us the answers to our problems and lead us into a bright future. We can only hope this is true. Sadly though, as listed above, are some of sciences' good intentions gone wrong. I do not blame science and agree that man's dark side is certainly to blame for these misadventures. That being said neither man nor science is able to correct them. We still have atomic and chemical weapons and we still burn fossil fuel. Man is still as cruel and murderous as his history reveals. Given the state of our world, increasing population, dwindling resources, corporate greed, and fundamentalist rhetoric from all sides, we should pause and consider. Will the next great scientific achievement be another one of these 'mistakes'? Will it be used as intended or corrupted? Will that mistake be as irreversible as the others?
I think it would be foolish to say it can not happen. I'm very hopeful that it will not. My question is, can any one assure me it won't?
__________________
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
|