09-16-2018, 10:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2018, 10:47 PM by Eric the Green.)
It looks like a view of the view of the future completely dominated by technology. This is typical of old-age futurism. There's no doubt technology will be reaching levels we can only imagine now, just as it has already done. However, what really determines human life are the status of human social and spiritual intelligence.
In their first entry for 30 AT (30 years after Tranquility, the Moon landing in July 1969), they say that the 9-11 attacks changed politics for the next half century, which is incorrect, and then there's no more entries about politics, as far as I can see so far. So I see no connection to S&H theory, since this centers on social moods rather than just technology. What S&H say is that civic generations, such as the current Millennial Generation coming into prominence now, are well-informed and inclined toward technology, and so it's clear that this site is likely run by Millennials, and that they are not well versed in the human potential movement and its vision of the future that was being developed around 0 AT. Even most Boomers now seem to only remember the music and largely forget the visions of the 2T, but which are the real springboard for a meaningful future.
I see a statement on this OA site that technology will create a new kind of intelligent life which will surpass the human, but then it goes on to describe changes to human life. Another powerful trend, which I saw described on 60 Minutes in their report on the MIT Media Center, a center of innovation, is that humans are becoming able to replace disabilities with limbs that we can operate and feel just like organic ones. This is related to the trend called transhumanism, in which it's not so much that our machines will take over, but that humans will become machines like the bionic man and woman, and yet retain our own will and consciousness. This could also increase lifespans almost indefinitely, perhaps. What is missing in both scenarios, of course, is what progress we can make in understanding consciousness, not as a machine, but as the souls which Spirit and evolution have endowed us, and what potentials for growth they have.
In their first entry for 30 AT (30 years after Tranquility, the Moon landing in July 1969), they say that the 9-11 attacks changed politics for the next half century, which is incorrect, and then there's no more entries about politics, as far as I can see so far. So I see no connection to S&H theory, since this centers on social moods rather than just technology. What S&H say is that civic generations, such as the current Millennial Generation coming into prominence now, are well-informed and inclined toward technology, and so it's clear that this site is likely run by Millennials, and that they are not well versed in the human potential movement and its vision of the future that was being developed around 0 AT. Even most Boomers now seem to only remember the music and largely forget the visions of the 2T, but which are the real springboard for a meaningful future.
I see a statement on this OA site that technology will create a new kind of intelligent life which will surpass the human, but then it goes on to describe changes to human life. Another powerful trend, which I saw described on 60 Minutes in their report on the MIT Media Center, a center of innovation, is that humans are becoming able to replace disabilities with limbs that we can operate and feel just like organic ones. This is related to the trend called transhumanism, in which it's not so much that our machines will take over, but that humans will become machines like the bionic man and woman, and yet retain our own will and consciousness. This could also increase lifespans almost indefinitely, perhaps. What is missing in both scenarios, of course, is what progress we can make in understanding consciousness, not as a machine, but as the souls which Spirit and evolution have endowed us, and what potentials for growth they have.