Yong Wan Bryan Choi한국어Chapter 11: The Future of Humanity
Translated from the Korean original. Read the Korean original
- The Future of Humanity
Life was given to every living thing in this wide world and has endured on this land for the longest time. The sense of feeling was given only to a limited number of higher animals and has existed in the recent part of the Earth's history. Thinking reason was given only to humans, born as the youngest of the higher animals, and has existed only in the shortest history, that of modern humanity.
If we divide human history broadly, the period of religious life lasted the longest, the period of artistic culture lasted next, and scientific civilization, in the shortest period, is bringing about the greatest change. Let us think about where humanity, which has become the lord of creation, came from, how we should live, and how we should shape our future for the sake of our descendants. We have lived together with religion, art, and science. The providence of life on this land, achieved over 3,500 million years, lies before us, but in the shortsightedness of our materialistic life, the destruction of nature over the last two hundred years seems immense.
What we must do is understand the truth of the natural environment that nature created and carry out the natural order. It is only right that we value the lives of our descendants as much as our own lives are precious, and take great interest in the living environment of future humanity.
Managing our lives so that all living things in the natural environment live healthily together with humanity is for the sake of future humanity. It is the duty that the governments of every nation in the world should set as their most important goal and carry out while maintaining peace. Just as other primitive humans disappeared from this world after modern humanity appeared in Africa 100,000 years ago, when space people are born on this land, modern humanity will gradually vanish from sight. Until then, the best course for modern humanity is to strive to live healthily.
We must re-establish the peaceful spiritual culture of the East, which led world history until the 14th century, restore the balance among living things, feeling things, and thinking things, and build a healthy world again. We must prove that Asians were originally the protagonists of human culture and civilization and correct the materialistic ideology Europeans created. From now on, the world is watching closely for the new role Asians will play in human culture for the world's environment.
The Second World War, in which Germany and Japan attempted to expand, ended in 1945, and humanity's mature adolescence shows a new face. The British Empire came to an end, the United States emerged as a great power based on a capitalist free-market economy, and the Soviet Union, putting the socialist Communist Party at the forefront, attempted an imperialist system including many countries of Eastern Europe, but failed. China, on the basis of the population and resources of its vast land, continues to stand up to the United States.
Aviation technology, begun by the two Wright brothers in Dayton, Ohio, developed rapidly during the world wars. Computer technology, begun at a calculating-machine company in the same city of Dayton to decode the wartime communication codes of Germany and Japan, was transferred to the IBM company and brought a revolution in the world's information storage and distribution. The Soviet Union's imperialist Communist economy collapsed, but China's Communist system opened up to capitalism and, following Japan and Korea, joined the world's free-market economy. The defeated nations of Germany and Japan joined the American economic system and rose to become economic powers, and while American military and economic might was overwhelming, the United Nations was established in the international city of New York within the United States. The United States, putting Protestantism at the forefront and evangelizing the world, owning the most automobiles, and importing from Islamic countries the heavy oil and diesel needed for heavy and light industry, came to face the resistance of Islamic countries grown wealthy.
The personality of humanity's mature adolescence appears in many ways. Since humanity was born on Earth, it has relied on God and clung to religion as to its parents, but around this time it shouts "God is dead," showing the look of rebelling against its parents. Yet because human life has the spirituality received from a mother's love, religion will go along with human life to the end. A sound life for modern people is achieved when they possess spirituality, sensibility, and intellect together. That science and religion are confused as they are now, causing worldwide turmoil, is because people are not educated about spirituality, sensibility, and intellect from elementary school on. Future humanity will have the ability to separate religion and science. For example, the foolishness of accepting both the religious creationism of the Bible and the Koran and the scientific theory of evolution, and confusing them, will disappear.
Medicine developed and life was extended; space flight developed and astronauts reached the moon; and the human sphere of life came to occupy most of the Earth. The possibility of conceiving and bringing forth new space people as modified humans, through the development of blood research and in-vitro fertilization technology, shows the reproductive capacity of mature adolescence. The phenomenon of launching artificial satellites and sending humans into the space of the universe is compared to a man ejaculating sperm from his sexual organ.
The phenomenon of Europe and America seeming to lead the world on their own and then America engaging with East Asia gives the feeling of a man and a woman dating. Time is moving ever faster, and entering the 21st century in this period of adolescence, human life is advancing rapidly. Humans make and manage computer programs, but soon, when programs come to make programs, a capacity surpassing artificial intelligence will appear. A time is coming when humans will make machine people who do not die and live together with them. There will come a period of family life, the happiest since humanity was born, in which adult humans and baby machine people live together.
Biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology are only at the beginning stage. We will enter an era of human family life bearing and raising space people, and it will bring the happiest period of human life on Earth. In the world of the near future, with the development of information and communications, when each person steps into a capsule that they carry along with them like today's automobile, they will have the ability to choose a time and space and connect with anything. The traffic of children going to school and young people going to work will decrease, the lifespan of the elderly will be extended, and the elderly population will expand. It will be a society in which the productivity of the elderly increases, and as transportation develops, one will be able to arrive anywhere in the world in an instant.