evolution
The evolution of science, science fiction, and mankind throughout the years.
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
Big Trouble in Little Punctuation
The broad-minded premise of Neil Burger's Teen Choice Award nominated-Film adaptation of Alan Glynn's techno thriller novel, Limitless (2011), is that we're only using a fraction of our available brain capacity. That we're not making use of our combined innate power to move through the world, because our capabilities are hidden from us. Bradley Cooper's titular character comes across a nootropic drug by the name of NZT-48, to game the stock market, become the President of the United States, and have sex with his wife or whatever. Get this - what if we're only using a fraction of the emotional range of punctuation, ad in-turn not utilizing it to it's true cosmic potential? What if we were able to unlock stigmeological capacities of punctuation, the likes of which we have never seen before? What if we were able to reinvent new modes of punctuation. The possibilities, if I may dare to say, could be Limitless (2011).
By The Lavender Prince6 years ago in Futurism
Coronavirus. I'll Fight For Our Children. Will You Fight For Them Too?
For reasons unknown at the present time, the coronavirus that is sweeping the world is sparing our children. The most vulnerable of society; the elderly, the sick and the young, tend to be at most risk of viruses and illnesses that have affected our world in the past. While children can be infected, like healthy adults, the virus hasn’t claimed any children, as yet. The recovery rate is still 100 percent.
By Samantha Wilson6 years ago in Futurism
