Promise of the Golden Age

What shall a man progress? New products, new features, easier ways to achieve results? Or something more? Something that even we can not see, but can no longer do without it. A certain comfort, a certain simplicity. Purchasing all that we need and guard against food shortages, goods and services. We are getting used to live in luxury and comfort. Too tightly bound to that state. It will be difficult to wean from it ...

But whether it be? Are we obliged to return to the uncomfortable conditions? Depriving yourself of comfort, but for what? What can bring us great pleasure? What can make a person act who has everything? After all, food security and entertainment - have long been a major component of life. The only question is, can we live without them?

The age of technology and progress promises longevity, health, beauty, accessories ... advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and together, we draw from the endless stream of magic, more and more gifts. Blindly believe in the promise of eternal life. We come up with the proud slogan is going to give up immortality. How we conduct propaganda of the natural way of life. But all these dreams will not come true.

Longevity, strength, beauty, majesty - these are the characteristics that you can not give a man. Everyone is on their own to the target based on their own motivation. We do not "choose" forward-looking solutions. We will not abandon the implants and technologies. On the contrary, many of those who are shouting about the nature and the preservation of the body, will go to the head, because of the new chip. Think about how we rush to the dentist, for toothache. Do we seal, something wrong and unnatural? I bet if we with the doctor about the "correctness" of the job?

Promises that sound in the media - often unfounded and exaggerated. At the very positive outcome, eternal life is available to only a few, while preserving the body. Of course, you can always refuse a piece of meat in favor of the technology, but will keep the animal fear of those who proudly call themselves "enemies of progress."

Writers promises "Golden Age" of science fiction - have ended. No thrusts us products technologies. No one imposes a force that we are so eager to buy. The only struggle of those that are carried out, it is a struggle for the client base. That's it we see in advertising and promotion.

We were promised a colony on Mars, but we prefer to smartphones. We were promised the people cyborg - we chose self-stick. We offer neural networks and virtual reality - we gravitate to the Middle Ages, cling to policies and primitive cultural values. In the end, most of humanity - will remain in the past, in the truest sense of the word.

The rest - welcome to a new era!