Technology Is The Most Likely Possibility For A Utopia...

A technological utopia is arguably the most likely possibility for a utopia within the 21st century. With breakthroughs in science and medicine vastly increasing the life expectancy and quality of humans comes a new hope that humans will harness technology and become a greater race, with endless possibilities. Certainly, it looks likely to the generations whom have seen the internet’s creation and huge expansion within their very lifetimes. With apps like Shae, which can tell you exactly what to do based on your personal mental and physical needs , the ability to sit back and let technology do the thinking for you seems increasingly available. Indeed, many millennials seem to have developed a form of dependence on technology and an†¦show more content†¦Transhumanism is the ultimate freedom from the refines of the human body; a world where cancer, mental illness, and death could never touch anybody again. This is comparable to some descriptions of heaven, and an amazin g concept. However, when one begins to actually think about what a life where there is no illness or death actually entails, the utopia becomes distinctly dystopic. A combination of no disease, the ability to put off menopause and remain fertile for longer, and ‘sex more exquisitely erotic ’ would surely lead to chronic over-population within decades. Of course, over-population is already easy to envision as it is happening but this would be on a completely different scale altogether, with natural resources and nature itself being eroded for houses and other such facilities. Even Russia, with a current population density of 9 people per sq. km , would eventually become full, and even with technology which would allow residence in previously uninhabitable areas, the world is simply not big enough to contain an increasing population of potentially immortal humans. Artificial intelligence scientist Eder predicts that the ‘rise of artificial intelligence coincides wit h the asymptote of human population growth ’, and most