Is Our Future Headed Towards a Utopia or Dystopia? — Transcript

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1. 0:00there's a forever struggle between chaos
2. 0:01and order in our universe and it's
3. 0:03happening all around us
4. 0:05each battling for control and wielding
5. 0:07it for what could only be described as
6. 0:09the briefest of moments before the other
7. 0:11gains the upper hand
8. 0:14take something as simple as our solar
9. 0:16system for example after extensive
10. 0:19research to scientists at MIT we sadly
11. 0:22announced that the entire solar system
12. 0:23as we know it is inherently
13. 0:25unpredictable
14. 0:27basically without an infinitely precise
15. 0:30knowledge of the location and velocity
16. 0:32of the planets at any given moment our
17. 0:34Newtonian calculations will be
18. 0:36completely wrong after I mayor four
19. 0:37million years
20. 0:39even organic life as we know it exhibits
21. 0:42long periods of stasis and mass
22. 0:44extinctions between bursts of evolution
23. 0:46and growth if there was no asteroid
24. 0:49impacts that wiped out the dinosaurs all
25. 0:51those thousands of years ago humanity
26. 0:53would have most likely followed a
27. 0:54different evolutionary path now before
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32. 1:05interesting content
33. 1:08so you're probably asking yourself what
34. 1:10does any of this have to do with a
35. 1:12possibly dystopian or utopian future for
36. 1:14a human race
37. 1:15it's simple really chaos and order are
38. 1:18the source of the ideas which dystopias
39. 1:20and utopias represent
40. 1:23a utopia is what most would regard as a
41. 1:25paradise a place where the right balance
42. 1:27of the social governmental and religious
43. 1:30systems exist and I maintained also
44. 1:33known as representation of absolute
45. 1:34order from a societal context while a
46. 1:37dystopia is basically the opposite where
47. 1:39everything is imbalanced violence unruly
48. 1:42and finally chaotic so will the world
49. 1:46end up leaning towards a dystopian path
50. 1:48or some kind of nirvana this is more a
51. 1:51philosophical question than a scientific
52. 1:53one
53. 1:55if you were to go outside today and
54. 1:57asked 100 different people if they
55. 1:59imagine the world becoming a dystopia or
56. 2:01utopia in the future you're likely to
57. 2:03get a fair amount of support on both
58. 2:05sides
59. 2:06this is because besides the fact no one
60. 2:09can actually predict the future
61. 2:10we often project our own subconscious
62. 2:12bias whenever we interact with the world
63. 2:14around us
64. 2:15so I guess we are stuck with philosophy
65. 2:17then
66. 2:19since the dawn of time people have
67. 2:21imagined a perfect world and their
68. 2:23desire for something better
69. 2:24promoted progress this drive advanced
70. 2:27unevolved society under the point we
71. 2:29find ourselves today yet despite our
72. 2:32advancements the world is still filled
73. 2:34with violence hate poverty and general
74. 2:37discontent the technologies we have
75. 2:39developed have been either twisted or
76. 2:41purpose-built to cause pain or violence
77. 2:44the Manhattan Project for example saw a
78. 2:47state sanctioned Assembly of some of the
79. 2:49greatest minds science could offer at
80. 2:51least in Western Hemisphere and what was
81. 2:53its purpose to build a bomb uh not long
82. 2:57after its creation that bomb was used in
83. 2:59Hiroshima and Nagasaki
84. 3:01when Japan refused to surrender during
85. 3:03World War two
86. 3:04in his declaration to the Japanese
87. 3:07people upon the topic of surrender
88. 3:09Emperor Hirohito stated and I quote the
89. 3:12enemy now possesses a new and terrible
90. 3:14weapon with the part to destroy many
91. 3:16innocent lives and do incalculable
92. 3:18damage should we continue to fight not
93. 3:22only we do result in an ultimate
94. 3:23collapse and obliteration of the
95. 3:24Japanese nation but also it will lead to
96. 3:27the total extinction of human
97. 3:28civilization today Japan is one of the
98. 3:32leading nations as regards advances in
99. 3:34technology owing to the high quality of
100. 3:37living they have the highest life
101. 3:38expectancy in the world also having less
102. 3:42than two gun related deaths per year
103. 3:43they are one of the safest and least
104. 3:45violent countries globally
105. 3:48although not absolute I consider this to
106. 3:50be a picture of a utopia and it was born
107. 3:53from a single choice Japan as we know it
108. 3:56today may have been wiped off the face
109. 3:57of the earth if they chose to continue
110. 3:59the path of war all those years ago
111. 4:02what this tells us is our future or the
112. 4:04future of human society to a large
113. 4:06extent is dependent on the decisions we
114. 4:08make today but it's not as simple as
115. 4:11making the right decisions at every turn
116. 4:12chaos will not have it so
117. 4:15sometimes the decisions we take might
118. 4:18even be made with the best of intentions
119. 4:20and yet would still lead to the worst of
120. 4:22results
121. 4:23when I von Braun had a passion for
122. 4:25astronomy and dreamed of building
123. 4:27Rockets for space travel but his ideas
124. 4:29were used to develop the v2 rocket and
125. 4:31later intercontinental ballistic
126. 4:33missiles for the US the Internet
127. 4:37initially intended to bring the world
128. 4:39together is a leading cause of
129. 4:40depression and social isolation for many
130. 4:42people today
131. 4:44in the near future machines will likely
132. 4:47take jobs from low to middle skilled
133. 4:49individuals leaving them feeling like
134. 4:50societal outcasts even though the
135. 4:53initial idea was to give them more time
136. 4:55to live their best lives
137. 4:57bottom line is even if an idea
138. 4:59technology or action is cut out for good
139. 5:02initially there is always a chance that
140. 5:04it will end up causing the wrong results
141. 5:05after all even the universe exists in a
142. 5:08constant state of struggle between chaos
143. 5:10and order
144. 5:12yeah that kind of sounds hopeless
145. 5:14knowing that society is inevitably
146. 5:17headed for chaos one way or the other
147. 5:18but I don't think it necessarily is
148. 5:22just like how the Sun on feelingly
149. 5:24lights up our day after a long night we
150. 5:26can choose to consciously make the right
151. 5:28decisions
152. 5:29keeping the chaos at bay
153. 5:32greed violence envy and the other four
154. 5:35deadly sins are all things we can
155. 5:36actively control by consciously doing
156. 5:38good and course-correct in whenever we
157. 5:40go astray I believe by doing so we will
158. 5:44be well on our way towards creating a
159. 5:46utopia which a species of our capacity
160. 5:48deserves
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