Yeah, I agree with what you are saying. Like in the middle ages technology was suppressed by Christianity. If we had never thought of religion and wasted time on worthless things we would be more ahead. I was directing that question more to the people who have had future dreams, and feel their pasts have changed.
let's not forget that during the 1,000 year period you are referring to, when science was suppressed, it was suppressed by the controlling government, which in that time period, was the establishment/religion. In the same way now, the controlling government/establishment is trying to squelch free speech. The government will always be corrupt and concerned only about the perpetual furtherance of more government. In the dark ages, this furtherance of government was made possible by keeping people uneducated, in these times the furtherance of government is made possible by removing civil liberties like free speech, access to factual relevant news instead of 24-7 infotainment fed to us by buxom blondes in low cut tops and short skirts. Government is government, and I am glad that church and state are a bit more separated now then they were in the past.
Time Will Wipe Us Out said:
Ha, its nice to see someone understands my take on the soul too!
I can see your view on it, but I believe in the future artificial organs and prosthetics will be commonplace. I think they will become more affordable to the average consumer. Take the evolution of computers. They are less than 100 years old, they started out the size of a room and only the government had them. A couple decades later they become available to the average consumer. Now you can go to any store and by a decent one for under $500. What's more you can buy one that fits in your pocket, for just a bit more. So I think by the end of the century artificial parts will be everywere. Also they may not have be artificial. Some scientists have managed to "3d print" an organ. It would be just like getting a transplant ether way. No harm in that. I'm sure if you were on your death bed you would want to have your organs replaced if it ment life or death.
Yeah, we can never know till it happens. It always seems when we can't make any new discoverys, we find out something that changes science and the world forever. Scientists could discover something tomorrow. Take the discovery of the world not being flat, that is a good example. At that time in history people though all the discoverys in science where all ready made. Look at us now lol.
I think it kinda funny how far we have advanced in such a short time. I am part of Generation Z, I grew up with consumer computers. Even to me it seems so amazing. When I was five, we had a Mac in our living room. I used to play games like mine sweeper on it. I got a gameboy color at 10. I played Pokemon Crystal on it lol. I was a bit late getting into games. After that I got into the PS2. I could go on, but my point is, In less than 20 years we have gone from 8-bit games to 4k 3D games. I got my first smart phone at 14, it was an iPhone 3gs. Every year they release a new one that has twice the power as the previous one. I am in college now and I have a phone that has 4x the processing power of that big Mac I played minesweeper on. I use my phone for everything. I absolutely can't live without it. I am now primarily a PC gammer, but my phone is my computer when I'm away from my computer. This is all a bit off topic but I believe that with the way computers are accerating that in a few hundred years we may even have computers that predict the future. Like the weather. Even if we never figure out how to time travel, I think that being able to see the future is the next best thing.
Lol 18, I was late getting into things like Pokemon. I had a GB color when everyone else had GBA's. After I got into it I bought a GBA and eventually a DS. The only system I have bought launch day was the 3DS. Now I don't play much other than PC games. The only exception is Project Diva on my Vita of course lol.So... you have to be between 26 and 28 years old