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Yes, fascinating...and interesting. Here we are, developing what you could call "alien technology", QM/nanotech/incredible computers/AI/AG, etc, etc; but we're still primitive savages, "apes with guns" is how they refer to us. Thus there must be a growing up/shocking experience like WW III/armageddon seared into human consciousness so that we will be MATURE and SELF DISCIPLINED enough to control the VAST new powers that science is giving us. Witness Iran and kooks with nucs..... Again, you don't leave a loaded gun in a nursery for children to play with. You don't let 5 year olds drive semitrucks on the freeway.....And now you understand why these amazing new energy discoveries that we already know about, that would get rid of oil-dependence, have to be kept OFF the market. Just look at trash-lined highways....

Either I'm going to strike a profound nerve of wisdom or I'll sounds like a tin-foil hat loon but here goes:

I wonder about things like that myself, I'm heavy into technology, I like to fix and repair things like old radios, plan to tackle a TV or two, especially my 1970 Zenith 23" color TV.

Myself, the computer I'm using now, it is a Gateway Pentium II, 266 MHz with 192 megs of RAM and a 200 gigabyte HD along with an external CD burner/DVD Reader. I got it in 1998 but as you can see, it is more of a "Frankencomputer" now. I'd love to update but the economic funk I'm in prevents me from doing so so I have to just use this Windows 98SE box. It does the job. I'm glad to be working at a dependable job but I recently had two very sick cats (one passed away ,the other we pulled through) and a car that needed major bucks to pass inspection. Anyhoo, whough about that.

I wonder about where we are headed technically as to where we are morally/ethically. We try to do our best in the latter but there are many times we fall short. The new technolgy, well even the nuclear technology of 1945 can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Iran with nukes? I think I'd rather trust Charlie Manson with an AK-47 or a 16 year old with a Ferrari from "Magnum P.I."

Hyperbole aside, I've wondered about a few things. Maybe it is my journey (which I know I still have a ways to go) in getting closer to Jesus and God, me wondering about the existence of Atlantis (IMHO, I do believe there was a technical civilization prior to ours, I know I can't prove it, but), along with the general observation of human nature, there are times I do think that if we don't get out act together and work out the morals and ethics to favor the good side, we do deserve to get knocked down a few pegs by God, atomic war, or something cosmic in order to teach us a lesson. I sort of have my own law in the back of my head to where Humanity is in a race, a race to the stars to put our eggs into many other baskets before we reach some point to where we will do ourselves in. Maybe it is from watching too much Star Trek, I dunno.

Your post reminds me of a discussion my father and I had about where we have technology more advance that we see now but we keep it off the market for various reasons such as we are discussing. We could have flying cars but we don't, why, do you see how people drive? I rest my case, your honor. My step-sister works at some foundation for cancer research, she gets into it with my father (he remarried) all the time. She is even dating a cancer doctor who tries to come to her side that we do not yet have the cure for cancer. My father believes we do but it is kept off the market since medicine is a big business. There are times I lean my father's way, I often wonder.

Either way, I'm still fascinated by high-tech but there are times I wonder if we are going too fast for our morals and ethics to catch up.

Nowhere Man will one day be SOMEBODY MAN, faith and patience my friend, faith and patience. As to Atlantis/unicorns and such : "atlantis" is a third hand account of a village in western greece on the shore of the gulf of corinth that was earthquake-shaken and subsequently sank into the ground via liquifaction(there are pictures of exactly this happening in japan); the subsidence was so extreme that a new bay was created, that covered this "atlantis" village. Then as the centuries passed the river that fed into that bay built up a silt layer and filled it to level land again. Archeologists have already dug to and recovered artifacts from that village. So much for "atlantis".....Unicorns : early greeks were EXPLORERS ranging far and wide. One explorer returns from africa with a description of a RHINOCEROUS, a horse with one horn on its head, thus fantasized into the "unicorn" by the greek dreamers.....Thus you have to consider the limited travel, knowledge, literacy of past ages; then apply Occam's Razor to most myths.....As to cancer, yes, the medical community is a vast vested interest; SOLVING the cancer problem means they are OUT of business in that area. I'm a shriner and we have 22 FREE hospitals in North America for crippled and burned children, and yet only 40% occupancy. Your usual medico will almost NEVER mention us because there goes $250,000 to $500,000 out the door with each child(family)gone to a shrine hospital....As to drug addiction : another vested interest(cops/courts/prisons). If you developed a dopamine drug vial, like an old fashioned hearing aid clipped on the ear, that fed dopamine(other brain chemicals)directly into the brain; cocaine, heroin, meth, etc would go away; and with it a LOT of business for this vested interest. As a medical device each unit would be specific to that person with a prescription. You see, dopamine(other brain chemicals)are energy-intensive for the body to make, so if you self-inject them(to get "happy")that's fine with your body(which doesn't have to make them). Simple solutions, only VESTED INTERESTS stand in the way.