The ultimate destructive weapon
For people who dream of having the power to change the past, time travel could become the ultimate destructive weapon. Imagine how it could introduce unpredictable catastrophic events and their consequences into history.
Think of Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451. It suggests that killing an insect in another era could have unfathomable changes across many spheres. The idea of Michael J. Fox's adventures in the film, Back to the Future may no longer appeal to you if you realized making desirable changes for yourself and reversing decisions could trigger other undesirables for balance. Would you care?
The growth of advanced science and technology lessens the relevance of natural physical boundries. This is natures' way of stabilizing balance for humans, other creatures and things. Future technology promises to be able to remove or compensate for what we assume would be missing. This could lead to a future world were human actions or achievement might be entirely controlled by ego, drive to achieve and desires to do so.
Already, we see such motivation in the arenas of genetic engineering and software engineering in cyberspace where holograms are meant to enable us change who we are. Why is it that the world around us sends messages that convince us we should seek to change aspects of ourselves? Should we not be happy withour past and learn what we can from it rather than seek to change it?
Restraint may only be found in those people who have created a consicence, who nuture ethics, moral wisdom, self-control, and self-discipline. And what of the rest of us? As warp cores and other technology that fragment and send us through time and space come to be, it may not only be up to us to sense and change our moments. Would it be desirable for you to become suspended in time?
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