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THE THREE LAWS OF HUMAN DOMINANCE
Ever played with the fancy Robot Pup with a metal bone in its mouth?
Its first version, Technoe, was brought into the market by Sony Inc. for those who couldn’t bother to keep cleaning their messy pets and moreover, the mess that
the pets make. But this creates a bigger field on which companies can focus and build upon. Imagine someday when super strong metal-alloyed ones like Irona,
Richie Rich’s maid, would replace our average housemaids.
By the time we achieve this landmark, we would find that we don’t need human minds
working on any thing, now that they’ve worked so hard and manufactured thinking Robots. And now? What happens now? Well, a number of thoughts crop up in our
pessimistic minds that Robots would take over humans and that they would become our enemies and all that jazz. Get over it Humans! Don’t you read Asimov?
Do you have any idea about his 3 golden rules for Robots?
1.
A robot may not harm a human being, or,
through any action, allow a human being to come to harm.
2.
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3.
A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Also, you see, the machines don’t know what enmity actually is, only its definition.
They have not been provided with any sort of ambition to conquer or to rule so their AI (Artificial Intelligence) brains are nothing but rat poop against us humans.
So everybody, stop being so pessimistic.
THE PROSPECTS
In the 26th century, we‘re living with our beloved Robots’ help and just
so that we have some work to do, we still go to office, do our work, still do research work (even though we know the Robots can do that better than us) and
while we‘re at it, we discovered something only thought of in the old Science Fiction or Sci-Fi Books: Time Teleportation, using the irregularities of space-time at sub
atomic levels (ahem!), something called wormholes by ancient humans of the 21st century. Nice Job!
Well,
the world hasn’t come to and end yet. It is still very beautiful and the
global temperature hasn’t increased much since the 21st
century. Any ways, we can inhabit any solar system we want to within 10
light years of ours if any sort of mishap occurs. Many of them are already
inhabited by our people and most colonies have proven to be very
successful indeed.
We
especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all
logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Moving away from a science based on objectivity, people around the world are
realizing the importance of viewing science as a subjective, imaginative
subject which encompasses human imagination and philosophy. The
discoveries put in front of us which include vast theories ranging from
the Theory of relativity to the tiniest Quantum theory of Atoms, make it
evident that science is a pure harmony of subjectivity coupled with
objectivity. It is heartening to know that scientists around the world are
starting to accept this fact, and now view science in a new
‘imaginative’light.
This is the power of imagination.
This is the torrential current in the human mind that unites and stretches across the disciplines of learning,
from the broadest of the arts to the "softest" of the social sciences to the "hardest" specialized branches of the physical sciences.
This is how humans reach for what does not seem to be there, scoop it with their mind’s eye, sculpt it with their talent and give back to
us a piece of life that transforms our own view of the world and our own lives in it.
SCIENCE AND ITS USERS.
It was the same even for the most famous scientist of the last one hundred years, Albert Einstein.
A violinist himself, thought of Mozart’s music as so "pure and beautiful that I get it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
" I recently walked the Hall where the work of his imagination was on special viewing by museum guests. It was a simple equation – e=mc2
– but with it, he overturned what physicists have thought all along. He did not use any special apparatus to come up with this.
Just the power of his own thought, what physicists call a "thought experiment”. His imagination liberated physics from the prison of
rigid schooling that Einstein abhorred. Before Einstein, scientists have always thought that matter could never be destroyed.
But Einstein imagined nature deeply and he said that matter could be destroyed. In fact, Einstein said, matter and energy is one and
the same thing, theoretically transformable to and from each other under certain conditions. Scientists at that time were skeptical at first,
but it did not take long before it began to make sense to them. The imaginative formula was also later proven empirically as from this
fundamental formula.
Science and imagination grow from the same tree.
They are deeply rooted to each other, their existence a sacrilege without one another.
Something has to be imagined first, before it can be created or envisaged. Be it dreams or inspirations, imagination
has a tighter bond with science than any other human activity.
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