A New Revolutionary Trend Expected after the Corona-Pandemic
Between 1665 and 1667, the Great Plague struck England; accordingly Isaac Newton temporarily left Cambridge University to avoid the plague and study in his home to study calculus, optics, and the law of gravitation.
In 1920, during the Spanish flu era, Einstein was awarded a Nobel Prize though the reason for the prize was not the discovery of general theory of relativity.
It is interesting that when the world faced great pandemics, scientists with revolutionary, as at the time, ideas were developing or achieving their work.
After the 17th century Great Plague and Newton's work, the Industrial Revolution occurred in England and subsequently in the world. After the Spanish Flue and Einstein, technology continued to generate the era of electronics that has led to the current Internet age.
In this context, we might be allowed to expect emergence of a new era based on new science and technology after the current corona-pandemic. But what will it be like?
Apart from physics, the new trend of human science would focus on artificial intelligence. And, highly-developed robots with advanced artificial intelligence might be invented. If the human beings go extinct due to other pandemics, etc., these robots would survive while inheriting the human civilization. For example, the mankind might go extinct in the 21st century due to more fatal viruses, and in the 22nd century, only robots might live or work in the earth.
Theoretically, it is thought that it is possible to make artificial nerve cells in the brain of a robot, which should work like those in the human brain. Such a robot would have a kind of mind, like the human mind, based on artificial intelligence embedded in its electronic brain or brain computer.
And this robot would not have fear for death, since it has no biological body. Therefore, robots would not have a religion without forming an image or a picture of the God, Heaven, the spiritual world, the hell, etc. But they might continue to live, as least as robot society, till the end of the universe, conquering other planets and galaxies.
However, the human history should end when the last surviving biological man dies. Such a world of robots should have nothing to do with the mankind. So, it is apparent that life and death is the most important issue for everyman. But, as long as each of us belongs to the mankind, the human history is of our concern. Even Newton and Einstein who should be now in the spiritual world must have concern over the human history and destiny.
Although our concern is our life and death as individuals rather than the end of the world, the human history cannot be neglected, since it should give true meaning, significance and value to our individual life and death, since the history should be manifestation of the will of the God.
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Luke 1 King James Version
3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.