Achieve The Impossible

Collectively, at the end of the twenty-first century, humanity is struck with a perplexing reality — a society, fundamentally metamorphosed around the abstractions of artificial intelligence, is not the only civilisation residing on a circular astronomical object, floating through the multitudinous dimensions of space and time at a speed of 66,000 mph. The technologies that evolved over this century aided in discovering the reality — something that many scientists anticipated throughout their life. How did we get this far? How did we manage to overhaul from ‘no electricity’ to ‘outer-terrestrial colonies’ in just under 300 years? The credit goes to a handful of ideas invented in a span of a few decades. Since the dawn of civilisation, we have been assembling this planet from scratch, bootstrapping our supplies, working collectively as a cohesive team, irrespective of the race and gender, with the fundamental notion for ascertaining breakthrough visions that would transform the society for its greater good. We have fostered a world-wide coalition of disruptive intellectuals, and constructed a substantial network of progressive thinkers, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, and scientists. To the future generation, the very few aspirant luminaries, thank you for bringing this book to your attention and taking some time out to read a book in the world of augmented digital content. This is where it all begins.

Let’s transport back in time to 2020. Our consciousness, imprisoned in the present, continually looks out for drastic ways to predict the future — lower uncertainty, prognosticate barriers, and discover ways to take the next step. Every single day, we are exploiting the intricate knowledge that we retained from our past. The approach to solving these problems is driven from the desire to achieve the impossible; a thriving want at the bottom of our heart to achieve exponential progress.

1.1 — The Pale Blue Dot (centre-right)
© 2016 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

On July 19, 2013, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab released a brain-melting image — recognised as the “Pale Blue Dot”. The photo was taken from the Cassini spacecraft near the Saturn. Now take a moment to step back, breathe, and think — you and I, along with the billions of residents, live in that tiny dot. Everything we learned, and we know — all our existential knowledge is stuffed into the pale blue dot. In a grand scheme of things, we are a microorganism in the vast space of emptiness, yet the desire to achieve the impossible does not fade away. On a broader scale compared to the galaxy’s existence, human life-span is absolutely nothing. Yet, we move on, grasping that mortality is inevitable, and unearthing ways to enhance lives, with a hope that it will be favourable to the future generations. Welcome to the philosophical and pragmatic analysis of the technologies that will help us take that quantum leap. From here, the future could go in any direction. It depends on how we utilise the resources we possess.

An excerpt from my book Exponential Progress.