Humanity 2.0?
I was wondering a lot about such a title appearing in
one of the tabs of my portal. Wouldn’t it be considered as a provocation? For
sure, it's selling!
Coming with all the buzz around the Web 2.0, and the
Enterprise 2.0, "Humanity 2.0" could obviously be the title of a
discussion on the ways new and high technologies may have impacts our manhood,
in its dual meaning:
- On one hand, the consequences of Hi-Tech on the
evolution of mankind,
- And on the other hand, the predictable — and
unavoidable — changes on men’s interior life, which will appear slightly while
the society and economy are evolving at high speed toward a model of cyber
world.
This title may also be a reference to "another
kind of Humanity" as scientific, ethnologic and genetic studies have raised
the probability that Neanderthal might have belonged to "another species
of human being". Personally I'm more shocked by this conclusion than by
the silly and ridiculous statement that the missing shackle of man's
affiliation chain was a monkey — Darwin's theory of evolution was awkwardly and
wrongly interpreted in order to "justify" such an absurd thought.
Anyway, none of these theories could change my faith in Jesus and my
understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
Of course, "Humanity 2.0" may also include
potential extra-terrestrial humanoids… It's also a most exciting issue because
during the next quarter of a century, Space Research will focus on attempts to
discover water and life on the Moon and Mars and on all other reachable
celestial objects of our solar system. What would be our reactions if hints of
elementary life would be found everywhere? It wouldn't change really our
situation as "In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth…" (Genesis 1:1), God
created Earth among the universe… Maybe our
notion of alien will be revised.
Here is a very simple revelation: God place Man and
Woman in the middle of living beings — fauna and flora — and unanimated
objects. Man and Woman have always fabricated, invented, carved, painted their
own objects for their convenience, using them as tools or weapons or decorative
items. In all cases, their motivations are always art, religion or science.
Whatever their purposes, they have partly transferred their conceptions of life
to things, which carries their own representation of the universe. They have
also passed some of their magic powers to votive items.
Nowadays men and women are able to implement their
logics in complex devices, leveraging them to the status of systems. Beyond
encoding logics, they are able to simulate intelligence… In the next few years
computerized devices will be coupled with cellular life!
Now a new question is relevant: Are these devices
bearing a little part of our Humanity?
When watching Mars Rover, the pre-programmed vehicle,
exploring the grounds of the red planet, one cannot help thinking that the cute
robot has brought a little bit of our Humanity hundred of millions of miles
away in Space. Mars Rover automatically sent huge collections of pictures to
manned space centers… Computerized processing allowed accurate mapping of large
areas of Mars. This is quite close to a totally unmanned sequence of processes.
This kind of complex system will sooner or later replace human presence, as
Sapiens Sapiens had implemented a part of his logics before trying to transfer
whole of his intelligence to machines, which will be designed, in a farther
future, for endless self-operation in absolute autonomy.
“When God created man, he made
him in the likeness of God (Genesis 5:1)… God made man ternary: Body (Material), Mind (Intelligence) and Soul (Spirit).
Man made his devices to his image, too. But he made
them binary: Hardware and Software.
Should the hills and the mountains move away, should
the world end and should human species disappear in an apocalyptic final bang,
there could not be any Humanity 2.0!
We are a unique Humanity facing our one
and unique divine Creator.