Tag: science with no compass

Science and the New Dark Ages…

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Just in case you were looking for some ideas for your next dystopian novel… in a new feature, the BBC reports on ideas for combating anthropogenic climate change by engineering humans to use less resources.

How about giving people patches that would make them allergic to meat? As someone who is intolerant to alcohol, I can confirm this should dramatically cut people’s meat consumption. Or how about cutting people’s height by 25 percent? That should reduce how much food they eat and how much energy they need to get around.

Nobody is seriously considering these options, but they’re interesting conversation-starters. And anyway, societies have historically implemented “human engineering” to save their resources. The BBC points to China’s one-child policy as an example. (1)

But all serious things start as a joke.
All dark ages begin with a pointless idea.
Darkness is coming.
We are just too dazzled to see it…
The light of science impresses us.
And we are not realizing that it is slowly burning our eyes…

Seek ethics.
Seek goodness.
Seek not… “science”!

Virtual eyeballs. Wrong science.

The lenses of the new “wearable eyes,” called AgencyGlass, display a pair of virtual eyeballs that can move back and forth, up and down. They help the wearer maintain proper eye contact with others by using an external camera to detect faces and a gyroscope and accelerometer to sense motion. They also blink, and glance upward to simulate a “thoughtful expression.”

Aside from helping college students get away with taking secret naps in class, Osawa believes his device may help relieve people’s “emotional labor,” the enthusiasm and set of proper emotional responses required in many service jobs. Since engineers use robots to extend our physical abilities and enhance our intellect, Osawa wanted to create a technology that could enhance our social skills too, he said. (1)

We constantly choose to utilize science for all the wrong reasons.

Instead of helping us to be more human, we use science to become more shallow and uncaring.

We use science to become less human and more robots every passing moment.

Even the best tool can lead to destruction if not used properly…

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