Imagine a
technology that
literalizes the
alchemical notion of
transmutation. Imagine squirting a drop of this stuff onto a
garbage dump or a
landfill and coming back later to neatly stacked piles of
reusable raw material, as well as heaps of clean
biomass. Imagine turning that
biomass into
food for the world, overnight. Imagine an
atmosphere like we had 5000 years ago and a crystal-clear view of the stars, over
Los Angeles and
Mexico City. Imagine (for you
programmers) the ability to
program physical matter as easily as you would a piece of software. Imagine the ability to
program your body with as much ease. Imagine the end of all
ailments. Imagine the end of all notions of
economics (the mathematics of limited resources). Imagine
imagination being the
prime mover of the world, not money, not politics, not race, not wealth, not gender, et al.
You may be wondering how a planet or a species could handle the kind of freedom imagined above (population explosion, terrorism, ecology, grey goo scenario, etc.)
Imagine. Look deeper and you may see that this will eventually lead us beyond everything I've mentioned on this page. And sooner than you'd think...