I recently watched, again, the movie Minority Report. This brought to light many surprises, already happening, by the way, related to high technology like drones or mini-bots, 3D keyboards and screens, eye identification in retail stores (together with all the marketing this means), new drugs and of course the so-called old human fears.
When I was a kid I wondered if the people from the past (around 2, 000 years ago), had the same fears and feelings than us, the modern or postmodern society, whatever you want to call it. I thought that maybe those feelings were more simple, like flat noncomplex ideas or dreams. But as time passed and I learned more about human history I realized humans are exactly the same complex and anxious organism since the beginning.
Many things might change with time: technology, clothes, entertainment; but in the end, human nature remains the same. So, I have this hypothesis, or maybe it's already a thesis? Humans are not here to technologically evolve (considering 'technology' as the 'de facto' method to ease our curiosity and anxiety for the unknown), but for growing spiritually. Now, this might sound 'New Age', but examine this: we keep searching for answers to old questions, transcendent questions.
I have this feeling that in 2,000 or 5,000 years from now, our species might be settling down around the universe but it will keep asking for the same questions, meditating about this subject. Maybe, a child from a distant and lonely planet, like in the book 'The Petit Prince', by Antoine Saint-Exupery, might find the answer. Something like: 'Here is (the) my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". And suddenly, all humanity realized they were looking in the wrong place.
