When do you think...?

Question

The technologies we use today (mobile phones, robotics, airplanes...), were once thought to be unreachable, and what we only see or read about in science-fiction works at the moment, will, for our grand-children be daily life realities (eg. regeneration, instant space travel, A.I. ...)
Do you think that in a far future, we will reach the end of our imagination, the ultimate achievment?

Answer 1

sometime around 1895 the US director of patents said " I cannot foresee any further requests for patents as I believe that mankind has invented everything possible"
and look what has transpired since then.

Answer 2

I agree with some of the answers above. There is always room for improvement but as technology has become more and more sophisticated I think we have become more and more dependent on these things to get by e.g. children may not be able to do their homework without the internet. This puts thos ewho cannot afford a computer or the internet in a harder position.

But as technology improves we learn more and more. Whether this is a good thing is debatable. I don't think there would be an end to technological improvement simply because people always ask the question "Why?"

Answer 3

Is there an end to what we can imagine, is the question here. But first about the pace and the level of human development with a question – how far we have come? Should we be thinking already that we are likely to run out of imaginative stuff one day? I remember long time ago when I was young, it seemed a long time being alive already. But now I realise that that was mere the dawn of my life; there were a whole lot of things to follow, things that would change my view of my world many times over. But is quite possible that we are nearing some sort of end that will come in view in the near future, but at the same time it is also possible that this is just the beginning of many beginnings.

And even if we were deported out of this material version of life, we would be either upgraded or down graded into one of countless parallel realities in existence. I say this when I take into account the infinitesimal number of possibility we can perceive despite all but a limitative nature of our being. This is true that the universe entire is made up of all things limited: the sun, the planets, the interstellar space, the galaxies and intergalactic distances are all measurable. Is this a reason good enough for imagining that a universe that is made up of limited things is limited too, or that there are an unlimited number of limited things in existence? In my personal point of view the later in the instance is true. The universe is unlimited, like human mind. For instance, we can think of a fruit or a flower into the reality of our imagination out of nothing but what we have already seen, without any need of space or time for manufacturing.

Now, here is the point that I am trying to make: if we can imagine a flower then it is obvious that we have seen a flower and our imagination in an intricate and wholesome way depends upon what is already there I our perception. I cannot imagine anything that I am not able to recognise with reference to what I see in front of my eyes. My imagination is like a tree grown into the soils of my known reality, but the question is can it grow independently in an entirely different form of reality somewhere out of this world?

I think it can. As all I can imagine is not only supported by what I see, what is around me, but it is also restricted by it. The universe is a place packed full things, if there is nothing even then there is space and sense of distances from nearby objects. Nowhere in the universe if absolutely empty, where my imagination can be completely free to imagine all sorts of weird and wonderful things, unseen and unheard of in this world.

If the universe is limited, then to reach the end of our imagination, and to fathom this seemingly endless ocean, will not, in my view, be the ultimate in human achievement. The ultimate achievement would be to be able to create the stuff for our imagination to imagine out of nothing - the grand act of creation. And if the universe is unlimitedly created already then there obvious is no end to what we can imagine in time to come forever.

Answer 4

That would depend entirely on what we perceive our ultimate achievement to be. Do you mean ever lasting life? I'm not sure we would like that in reality.... one lifetime of trauma is difficult... but we can balance it with a lifetime of love. Eternity would not necessarily be my idea of perfection. but it does scare me how quickly technology moves. What scares me moer is what we don't know about. USA knew about the internet 10 years before we did. What else is around the corner that we are unware of?

Answer 5

I think there is always room for improvment. There will never be a final goal. Technology will always be around continually to be improved.

Instead to mobile phones there will be transporter machines and things like that. Sounds daff now but so did a mobile phone 30 years ago!!

Answer 6

No never, I think imagination will always be at least a few steps ahead of what we can achieve. There wil always be things that we think of as impossible which lets our mind wander considering the possibilities.

Answer 7

One possibility I see is that the internal strife and rivalry may reach such heights that there may remain no scope for progress....... because even before a progress can be achieved, there would be greater forces working to throttle it.

Answer 8

No. As the saying goes, "As one door closes, two more open." The human race will always be thinking of things that build off of what we already have.

Answer 9

can't help but think that although all this technology is pretty amazing stuff our quality of life has gone down as a result.

Bring back living in caves! lol

Answer 10

As we are just now discovering that there are more galaxies within our universe, imagination is the same, limitless and timeless.