Fujiko Suda: Worklife

Humans will be mostly manufactured

Aug 01, 2009 15:27 pm / Add a comment

Maybe humanss will be man­u­fac­tured, not born by year 2209.

Look around now.  We seem to have already made the choice.  We are wait­ing for the tech­nol­ogy to catch up.  Kids in advanced coun­try planted in front of PC or gam­ing device or some sort of machine, because there aren’t room for them to play outside.  They even do arts on PC.  They are groomed to study so they can become adults who can make money.  If they made money, they can buy things which allows econ­omy to keep going.  If the econ­omy keep going, there will be no hunger, poverty, or war.

Not just kids.  Fly­ing first or busi­ness class will give us the glimpse of the choice we have made.  We are totally seg­ra­gated from the per­son next to us.  We are attached to the audio-visual units.   We will choose the peo­ple we talked to, not some­body who might bore us dur­ing long flight.  It goes the same way every­where in cities.  We don’t want to talk to some­one who’s next to us, at home, on sub­way, at store, because com­par­ing to the reward of get­ting to know some­one we like, risk of some­one bor­ing or dis­taste­ful (in our eyes) attach­ing them­selves to us is greater.  Before the tech­nol­ogy, we had to take the risk because there was no other way.  Now, we can screen nearly everybody.  Even though the cur­rent method will make life more stale and pre­dictable than ever before, humans have ten­dency to avoid risk of bad human relationship.

The earth will not sus­tain the pop­u­la­tion growth, if our bio­log­i­cal needs stay the way it has been.  Human species have the need for hous­ing, cloth­ing, food to stay con­tent, and all of them take enour­mous resource from our liv­ing environment.  If we would eat much less, did not eat other mam­mels, the strain on envi­ron­ment will decrease considerably.  If we didn’t eat the food that required much energy in grow­ing, har­vest­ing, pro­cess­ing, that would make more room on this earth.

We want to help our fel­low humans so we will con­tinue with med­ical and other aides, which means longer life to all.  We find agres­sion distasteful,  so are divert­ing away from mass killings.  Even if we stopped eat­ing meat, or stopped the intake of food by 50%, stopped man­u­fac­tur­ing things that required use of any nat­ural resource, it won’t be enough to sus­tain the earth, or the new generation.

How do we share mean­ing­ful life expe­ri­ence with all other human being, with­out hunger, poverty, or war?  Maybe by becom­ing a being that can feel the  emo­tions and have expe­ri­ences just in the brain.  Maybe that means such brain made by mate­ri­als that was sustainable.

And so human man­u­fac­tur­ing seems  like pos­si­bil­ity to the human sustainability.   If we went out into space, will we just repeat what we did to the earth?

These thoughts have been on my mind for the past year or so.  I love my fam­ily, my friends.  I like my fel­low work­ers, my neighbors.  I don’t even know whats right.  How do I teach my kids?  The young people?

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