Of Technology and The Future

What comes next, I wonder…

My Beautiful Sara,

I hope this letter finds you well. I hope it carries with it the smile that lights up my face as I write this. I hope that someday in the future they invent some magical means that would allow me to see your face and share my words with you at the same time. Ah, the wonders of the future! The possibilities!

What could the future look like? We pitiful humans have never been good at predicting that, have we? We thought the future would be steam, but nooooooo, Here come transistors and silicon chips. Here comes the internet and nano-technology. Here comes CRISPR and gene editing. We may believe the future to be quantum but who really knows what’s coming?

Also, there goes all the awesome steam-punk living that we could have been doing.

There’s a beauty to that mystery. we walk around as if we truly know what is ahead but we can only guess to the best of our ability. The crystal ball is unclear and I’m pretty sure it reads ‘Made In China’ on the base. We may want to get a new one. We come from a questionable past, living through an overwhelming present rushing to a mysterious future. It’s exciting and scary. It fills my heart with trepidation and yet fires up every part of me knowing that there is more to come.

I know you love the mystery of it. The possibility of the world being so much more than it is right now. Imagine the possibilities of CRISPR and live gene editing. The ability to wipe out entire diseases, save millions of lives. Imagine adding that into future space travel and being able to protect humanity against the radiation of space, or be able to live through it. Throw in the power of supercomputing and we could be a spacefaring race in the next two centuries.

If, of course, we don’t use everything I’ve just mentioned against each other.

That’s the irony of mankind, isn’t it? We are so busy destroying the only home we’ve ever had. we are so busy trying to wipe each other out.

We are the last humans left in the entire universe, and we don’t know it yet.

Time will tell, I guess. We shall see.

As for me, I’d like to be there to see it with you.

Yours, Always,

Lawrence

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