If Stephen Hawking can't solve the worlds problems the most intelligent person alive are we truly doomed?

Question

he understands quantum physics and has solved mathmatics few of us will ever be able to phathem myself included if the smartest man alive can't solve our problems who do we turn to?

Answer 1

Well, maybe he HAS solved them but no one wants to implement his solutions. I'm in the same boat.

Answer 2

No I don't think we are doomed, or I hope not anyway, but sometimes the most intelligent person in the world can't see something and someone watching TV all day just comes up with the perfect answer.
Also, some people can be extremely intelligent for some things are not so much for others. Maybe that' s not the case with Stephen Hawking but who knows, let's hope someone else can come up with something, maybe a way for massive mind control, ( other than TV and media)violence and anger suppressor? But then you create new problems and.. oh well..
Just don't worry, be happy and try to help saving the environment along the way

Answer 3

Well, the sun is doomed by nova and the universe by entropy. You are worried about the human race? Stephen Hawking has never addressed the world problems. I agree his is probably the most intelligent person alive, but it will take more than simple intelligence to solve the problem of human nature. That will take time and evolution. Give us another 10,000 years, and maybe humans will be something - other than a bad memory.

Answer 4

Well if you take the smartest person that ever lived and imagined someone 100 times smarter they still wouldn't know as much as the cumulative knowledge of a few million of the dumbest people on earth.

Even so solving all the worlds problems may seem a worthy goal it is an illusion. First, some good things cannot coexist so that forces us to choose between them. Second, history shows that every solution creates a new situation with its own set of different problems that require a different solution.

"So I conclude that the very notion of a final solution is not only impracticable but,…incoherent also. The possibility of a final solution turns out to be an illusion; and a very dangerous one. For if one really believes that such a solution is possible, then surely no cost would be too high to obtain it: to make mankind just and happy and creative and harmonious forever…To make such an omelet, there is surely no limit to the number of eggs that should be broken—that was the faith of Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, for all I know of Pol Pot. "

"……the millions slaughtered in wars or revolutions—gas chambers, gulag, genocide, all the monstrosities for which our century will be remembered—are the price men must pay for the felicity of future generations."

"The one thing that we may be sure of is the reality of the sacrifice, the dying and the dead. But the ideal for the sake of which they die remains unrealized. The eggs are broken, and habit of breaking them grows, but the omelet remains invisible. "

"…..the search for perfection does seem to me to be a recipe for bloodshed, no better even if it is demanded by the sincerest of idealist, the purest of heart. No more rigorous moralist than Immanuel Kant has ever lived, but even he said, in moment of illumination, ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.‘ To force people into the neat uniforms demanded by dogmatically believed-in schemes is almost always the road to inhumanity….no perfect solution is possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure."

Answer 5

Because even the smartest man alive is no match for billions of idiots destroying the planet. However, if everyone was as smart as Hawking, we would have a chance.

Answer 6

Stephen Hawking is smart, he is not intelligent. He has as much chance of solving the worlds problems as Oprah or Paris Hilton.

Answer 7

One man, no matter how smart, cannot solve the problems of 5+ billion people. It's everyone's responsibility to get in on the solution.
Humanities problems are not just scientific, but philosophical as well.

Answer 8

who told u he is the most intelligent first of all,

he is just proved himself, their many our streets who dont even know tht they are.

hawking had nothing do except tht, studies research and all tht, but normal people have lot to do.

I m not sayin he is not one the greatest researchers, but just to say if he is gone we r doomed is little too exaggarated.

Hawin was asked once in a show regarding if aliens arrive on earth wht wld be the aspiration tht thy wld come on earth, friendship or aquiring earth,
his answer tht they wld come with aspiration to aquire earth,
But even if he smart enough he shd have understood the greatest of civilization which reach greatness in all aspects of life are those who live peacefully and not violence and to say tht shows his shortcitedness,

i know many hawking supported reading this wld say i trying prove him wrng well not he may be right, but nobody can be certain wht a life on other planet wld be like humans greedy, power hungry

Answer 9

one man can't solve the world's problem. solving the world's problem is a collective effort. it needs the cooperation of everybody in the planet. we should all turn to each other.

Answer 10

Some one stupid. Let me explain this load and clear. If ever one was stupid and didn't care about anything then the world would be perfect! Get every one stupid your dead we would have world peace, problem solved, no more questions about this thank you vary much.

Answer 11

No Jesus, no Howking would solve the world problems alone... With our agreements and cooperation presumably it is possible...but there is no agreements and cooperation of a size of mustard seed detected within humanity yet...