I have been thinking about science and scientists. I have thought about really important scientific projects. Not how to wage wars from halfway around the world but how to get over our need for making wars. Not how to be more "secure" whatever that means, but how to have a conversation with who we think of as enemies. The problem is not gun control but that our weapons are too lethal and too easy to get.
What seems immensely important projects do not fall into the domain of any one science that I know of. But I have science fiction ideas of the most urgent emergency projects. We all know that really important ideas can be made real. It took only a few years to develop an atom bomb; a few years to put together the project to send a man to the moon and bring him back. The two projects I am proposing are of that magnitude and perhaps more important.
There is an urgent need to invent something, a shield, a counter force, a world wide something that prevents all explosions. When it is in place all around the globe no bullet, no missile, no dynamite, can do what it was made to do any more. All manmade weapons, useless trash. Not a law, but a physical force that makes explosions of any kind fizzle (that includes many kinds of engines by the way). Any kind of modern weapon simply does not work any more. Knives still cut, a sling shot still shoots a little rock. But nothing can explode"
The second idea is for scientists to find a way to get human thinking back to seeking solutions from the bottom up, rather than today's thinking focused almost exclusively on top down from experts or leaders or the very rich. Nothing in the real world is top down, everything grows from the bottom up. How to open our minds, world wide, to accept that solutions always come from below, never rain from the elite. Again, not as a policy, or a law, but a way of thinking. We should be able to learn again what early humans always knew, that any problem must be approached from the bottom. From down where we live. A shift in how we think.
We think we are so wonderful; let's do some wonders. I know we can.
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