Originally posted by CLL53
Lots of us have worked, or still work, with very high technology fields, many of which cannot be discussed. Over my years, I have always thought it interesting that people are so awed and amazed by the achievements of man, when in reality everything we have ever done, cumulatively, is minimal in comparison with the creation of a simple flower. Further, we ca from one form or thing into another form or thing. "There is nothing new under the sun..."
Well for sure the universe didn't invent the internet or computers or spacecraft. Man did. You poo poo these things because we can't make a flower but you have to mellow that with the fact science is just in the baby stage yet. Come back in a couple hundred years, assuming we survive and thrive as a civilization that long, you may have to assume a different take on the situation.
Science is in the baby stage because of things like medical science where, for instance, my wife had both knees replaced with metal ones. That is a baby stage science. Sure it works, but the doctor said quite clearly any athlete who has knees replaced cannot go back to his or her old field whatever that may have been.
My wife is not in that category but still, its a primitive fix.
It will be a mature science when the knees can be replaced by genetically rebuilding them totally with the patients own cells, renewing the cells rather than cutting them all out and putting in a metal piece.
I have no doubt that will happen, maybe it will take 50 years but I think sooner, 20 years maybe.
By the year 2100 I think we will be making artificial life forms and regrowing teeth or hearts from the inside, organs, blood vessels, brain tissue and the like and firing up our immune system to conquer cancer, Aids, and all those nasty viruses causing grief around the world.