Throughout history, mankind was aware of changes that opened new possibilities for realization. It is likely that some subjects saw these new creations as indicators of the end of some golden age. It is not difficult to imagine the resistance of some groups, above all, of those who were the most conservative in accepting by faith the change produced by some discovery. Prejudices have been old partners in human history.
A constant in those times before ours, was the relationship between technological development and human progress. I don’t out-take that occasionally there would’ve been a small setback when deforesting some sensitive area, or introducing a component of flora and fauna that was harmful to an ecosystem. But no matter how much damage could be done, the human scale was so small that it did not have enough impact to the gigantic nature.
These were times where one could think of a hope for sustained progress.
In our time things changed. Still, until the first half of the twentieth century we lived with the illusion of being able to solve all our problems through the use of two great human creations: technology and political-social organizations.
Until those years, there was faith that science would provide the necessary knowledge and that the liberal or communist system would solve the problems derived from societies that were becoming increasingly complex.
But after the second half of the previous century, there was a change in the situation. The certainty of a time of hope gave its place to a corrosive doubt. The doubt went viral. On all sides voices of alertness arose. In science, in economics, in politics, holes began to appear that threatened any possibility of trust.
The end of Soviet socialism suggested that the threat of a nuclear confrontation had probably disappeared forever, that the world could join efforts to work in the same direction to achieve a situation of greater peace and harmony.
But things did not improve. So far in the twenty-first century, liberal democracy continues to stumble, it is yet to convince the great majority of its effectiveness as a political model. The few communist experiences that still remain, have nothing to offer but conditions for a life similar to slavery.
In the economic area, the problems remain. The distribution of goods follows models in which the inequality gap widens. We add to this panorama, the issues derived from pollution and hyper human concentration.
As we see, this viral doubt about the possibilities of a better future is based. However, we have to bet on human capacity. I am very confident in that great discovery of quantum physics, which is the principle of Uncertainty.
According to that theory, no system has a linear behavior. The continuity of the deterioration we have known so far does not have to be the human future. Probabilistically we have the possibility of giving a turn to what we have known. Of course, not everything will be a matter of randomness; it requires a good dose of determination to achieve the rediscovery of a new direction
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