Imagine a fascinating scenario when tiny machines traverse through the blood-stream and cleanse disease from the body, humankind colonises Mars by transforming its unfriendly atmosphere, deserts are converted into farmlands through advanced irrigation, skyscraper cities house the world’s rapidly expanding population and human life-span is doubled or also tripled. Well, well, well. This fascinating peek isn’t science fiction; it’s, quite simply, scientific eventuality.
Yes, all of them, and more, can happen, not by way of divine intervention, but scientific and technological advances. Picture this. Amazing changes are possible within the next few decades, where social complexities like hunger and poverty along with a concurrent increase in the worldwide standard of living, are all within our grasp. Visualise this too. A living, realistic utopia, where our society will become a macro-industrial culture, and not just an information coalition, connected to the most convenient and popular of perceptions.
Michael G Zey, a sociologist of international repute, and author of the landmark book Seizing the Future, not only projects a provocative and optimistic look at this incredible world of the future, but he also predicts that ‘prophesied’ problems such as ecological catastrophe will not materialise. This is not all. He articulates that technologies that can change the world are readily available to us; and, we must adjust our attitudes and embrace them to bring prosperity for all.
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