Vision of the Next

We are all concerned about the future, in everyday life, we move toward our destiny, and we try to plan for tomorrow to get a better life for ourselves and our children; but we all know that the future could not ever be predicted; we just put hypothesis and expectations and hope we will be right or near right and encounter them. No one can predict what mutations will occur and what kind of humans might result from them tomorrow. We practically all have the same desires, aspirations, and desires worldwide, and yet conflicts, wars, genocides, famines, repressions, rapes, murders, assassinations, and all gratuitous violence is repeated every day within humanity. To foresee the future, you have to know the past and the present; the man had already benefited from major technological and social advances a few decades ago; in particular of the industrial revolution, which engendered many changes in the way of working and of thinking as well as changes of social orders, and the arrival of the internet which upset the established order by accelerating the exchanges of information between people. Technological advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering make the militarization of pathogens easier and less expensive.; climate change will have devastating consequences, and we have nowhere to go; the collapse of the global ecosystem could halt the Earth's ability to support a growing human population; scarcity of water on the planet that will be a source of social and economic tensions which could one day become extremely serious. We are wasting the Earth's riches on futile and stupid mass consumption; the planet's ecological balances are fundamentally weakened by industrial pollution, and there are other risks to humanity that scientists have not even imagined yet. The legitimate question that we could put on ourselves is the main challenges facing humanity tomorrow? This book aims to bring you yesterday and today's big picture and try to give you some hypothesis of tomorrow's future. We could take some actions today and such as avoiding the excesses of science that have largely become technoscience, increasingly close to the market; reducing pollution and fighting against global climate change; protecting biodiversity and stemming the depletion of resources; curbing soil erosion and desertification; finding the means to feed billions human beings; intelligent machines could wipe out humans if left unchecked. Two opposing dynamics will probably play a determining role on the planet; on the one hand, the interests of large, globalized firms, driven by financial concerns, which use technoscience exclusively for profit; on the other hand, an aspiration for ethics, responsibility, and more equitable development that considers environmental constraints that are no doubt vital for the future of humanity. This book does not pretend to master any related topics but tried to give the readers a broad picture of today's facts and how they could impact humanity's future.