List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.
- Climate change is real – there is no ducking away from the effects of climate change. Indians are facing extreme monsoons causing floods. Excessive heat, droughts in other months. It’s already too late for our actions to tackle this and I am not seeing people taking interest in it.Sooner or later we are going to pay a heavy price for it.
- Extremism will completely obscure humanity- Some people have become so obsessed with their religion that they forget or choose to ignore the basic meaning of religion that is humanity. A person’s crime has nothing to do with his religion but his own wrong thoughts. A criminal or evil doesn’t have any religion, he is pure evil and nothing else, should be punished accordingly. But nowadays people choose to avoid humanity and justify one wrong by doing another wrong.
- Mental health will surely go down – With the wrong eating habits , bad lifestyle choices and issues like unemployment and poverty,almost the whole world will suffer from bad mental health. That will push us towards the wrong choices affecting the whole world.
- AI will affect humanity in a negative way- Already we are witnessing so many job cuts because of AI that I have a very negative feeling about it. It will surely make our life easier but I don’t know how big its impact will be, whether positive or negative.
- We Will be too late to find another planet suitable for living- the rate at which we are progressing in our space explorations , I don’t think we will be able to find another hospitable planet before extinction. Therefore, I always say the amount of money we are spending in space explorations should be spent in preserving our planet, making it better for humankind and other animals.
- Relations are becoming weaker- we are so trapped in the rat race of our daily life that we are hardly spending quality time with our loved ones or family. This is not only weakening our relations but the moral values too, which we can only enhance through our connections with our families and loved ones.
- People will hardly read books – we are already seeing so many people getting trapped in a technological world that they feel reading physical books is an outdated habit. There is so much information available on the internet that there is no need to shuffle physical books to get the answer. That’s why physical dictionaries have almost become extinct. Most other people are either distracted by other technologies or have shifted to e readers. Some people will surely not agree with me with this point though.
- I hope we cure the incurable diseases like advanced cancer- finally a positive hope I have. It is very painful to see your loved ones suffering from incurable disease or suffering from advanced organ failure. I really think medical science is going at the right pace to cure the incurable .
- Safer travel in the future – we see and hear so many road accidents, train accidents and aircraft crash these days . AI will surely make travel safer by eliminating at least human errors( at least I am expecting something good from AI though I am mostly negative)
- Humanity as a whole might come together for a bigger cause – we have already witnessed how people of all religions and countries came together to fight a pandemic like the Corona virus. Maybe in the near future an external threat or crisis will unite humanity as a whole
The Perceptions Square 