evolution
The evolution of science, science fiction, and mankind throughout the years.
What can we learn from Ancient Philosophy?
My interest in learning and understanding philosophy occured in the early teenage years. Being quite familiar with some of the famous philosophers and their theories, there is always an appearance of one question, which I can't have an exact or direct answer to. The question is "Why so often, we rarely see the application of philosophical theories in combination with politics?".
By Polina Egorova 6 years ago in Futurism
Dawn to Dust
The world was different. The old-ones had abandoned the outside world, for glass domed cities. The ones left behind had no choice but to change. They grew accustom to the ever-changing world. Father calls us NeoSapien since our kind was born after the change. Our bodies still looked human. But we were different. We were better. Our senses were heightened, our lungs didn’t burn because of the air. Neither did our skin. Since the clouds are constantly swirling around the sun the uv rays became stronger.
By Shaina Jackson6 years ago in Futurism
The Progression of Life
What can we say about the origin of life, or what form life may take in the future, and elsewhere in the universe? It can be troubling that all we have to work with is what we current can observe here on Earth, but this one "laboratory" still gives us volumes of information to answer these kinds of questions. For a more in depth analysis, you can check out my detailed paper on the topic: The Progression of Life: Before, Now, and in the Future; Here and Elsewhere.
By Daniel Goldman6 years ago in Futurism
Living with a Disability During COVID-19
I love words. I am a logophile- "a lover of words." When this pandemic happened, no one knew what to do. Live like it was a normal day. But the “normal” day turned into wearing a mask to cover your nose and mouth, gloves to cover your hands when you went out. Animals were immune to it, or so we thought. But the key to never getting this deadly virus was keeping yourself clean, shower everyday, wash your hands and brush your teeth.
By Julie Unruh6 years ago in Futurism
On Languages and Perceptions of the World
Language is a means by which the world is described, observed, explained, and, ultimately, understood. It unites a people by providing them with a universal way to talk about the world through a consensus on what words mean, how phrases are structured, and grammatical manifestations of greater ideologies. However, this universality exists only within an individual culture, as language itself varies slightly, and sometimes, drastically from one people to the next. The course of this essay intends to ethnographically explore the relationship between language and culture through considering the impact that various languages have on the social thinking within their designated cultures. Moreover, it will evaluate how the thinkings of these cultures differ as a result of their linguistically-rooted ideologies, and how these drastically different languages result in drastically different cultural understandings of anything from time, to behaviour, to quantity, to sounds.
By Channing Cook6 years ago in Futurism
Extinction: Why is Thanos' dogma puerile?
We have set foot on, reclaimed, and "bettered" 75% the land and 66% the oceans on the planet. Agricultural practices and livestock alone have taken over 33% of the land area and 75% freshwater. Thus, it provoked little wonder when a 2019 Nature's article evidenced that humans had pushed over 1 million flora and fauna species to the verge of extinction [7].
By betsy edna6 years ago in Futurism
Who We Will Be After COVID-19?
Science fiction and our imagination have been hand in hand since our childhood. And always in a sense of technological progress: the first space satellites, long-distance communications, intelligent clocks and autonomous cars were shown to the world through the big screen before they were a fact.
By creatorsklub6 years ago in Futurism
Intellectual Enrichment
We humans, as a species have come a journey, where other species in our blue planet simply can’t comprehend. It is time we take moment to look back and appreciate what our ancestral genomes have bestowed us, nourished and enriched by the evolution through great many nights and days in the past. The skills, instincts, and many other valuable traits have been passed along to us by our ancestors with the time.
By Dushyan Dharmawansha6 years ago in Futurism
The Loneliness of Humankind
We are not only upset because our children are now hungry, but we also suffer when we think about the next month the whole family will be starving. We not only experience our pain, of the individuals around us, but we also empathize with stories hundreds of years ago, even if it was a lie. Not only do we despair in the moment of separation, but we have firsthand experience of this even when we have just thought of it.
By Mush Boxey6 years ago in Futurism
The Loneliness of Humankind | Part 2
2. Forlornness - modern humans' "sumptuous feeling." The human society has evolved at a rate that outstrips that of biological evolution. The Holocene calendar claims that humans first settled down roughly 12,000 years ago, while Homo sapiens had formerly existed for 200,000 years. Insomuch as the "fight or flight" mechanism must have been dated to as early as mega-annum ago, since the dawn of the first species with the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
By Mush Boxey6 years ago in Futurism
Empty
I am waking up to see empty places. Empty stores & empty cars. As if stuck in a movie with no way to change the channel. I walk along with the sounds of air with no interruptions and a feeling of awe. As if to be meditating while in motion. Less and less are visible, and more of the same is contextual. Trees sway and leave change while the seasons move naturally.
By The Kind Quill6 years ago in Futurism
