<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Thank you, Pedro. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Indeed the key question for me right now - after sharing these earlier thoughts - is to which extent science and our free will to explore the riddles of the universe are "influenced" and "moderated", yes - even "censured" and "re-directed", by some external interested forces in modern days, much more than, say 100 years ago, by religious groups and movements? In other words, I question the current state of "initial and boundary conditions" for developing a free thought and will in human beings from the current active generation (20-40 years old) as being reshaped, or even recreated - without considering myself as being a QAnon or another conspiracy group fan - under the direction of some external forces - not necessarily aliens - that we currently ignore. We should not forget that a great deal of the active memory of our human society died out untimely with unfinished jobs to transfer their knowledge to the next generations, because of SARS-nCOV-2. What do you think about this? What is coming next? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Plamen</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 2:21 PM Pedro C. Marijuan <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear All,</p>
Below a couple of late messages from Plamen exchanged offline (due
to the list limitation). <br>
In my view, the relationship of technology with utopianism appears
quite frequently, and it is not unsound, but science needs to be far
more careful. <br>
From utopia to dystopia there are so very few steps...
<p>--Pedro<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Thank you,
Otto. I was in the mood to write this short appeal today. When
I joined the telco and media industry away from the self-pity
academia in the mid 1990ies, I felt inspired by the fall of
the Berlin Wall and the hope that the dreams of John Lennon
and Martin Luther King are about to become reality next. I was
not motivated by some weird opportunity to chase "likes" by
sharing narcissistic experiences with sensation greedy fellows
around the world in the social media as this became normal
today. I told myself that the next step for humanity is to end
all wars and go into deep space. The only problem I realized
at that time was the lack of communication, which made us feel
so damned alone in the universe. That's why I fully embraced
the development of the internet and all related technologies
that would help us to go out in the wild cosmos and civilize
it one day. I never thought that the same kind of technology
will be used to fabricate fake news, selfish social networks,
depressive movies and oppressive news that serve corporations
to create fears and inflate their profits. Just watch who was
the winner of the COVID-19 pandemic according to the stock
exchange numbers in 2020. What a waste of mind energy! It is
time to change something, away from these deep psychosocial
crises we experience today. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Yours,</div>
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Plamen L. Simeonov <<a href="mailto:plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com" target="_blank">plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com</a>>
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">I have seen
the movie. Despite all these dark and
apocalyptic visions of the future which
became popular in the past 40 years, I recall
another earlier era of sci-fi which was also
challenging but more positively motivated by the
spirit of adventure and the eagerness to explore
the riddles of the universe. Its driver was the
Apollo space program and the gentlemen's
competition in space between the Russians and
the Americans which has motivated millions of
people around the world including myself despite
the Cold War. At that time the world was at the
edge of self-destruction (1983, the Pershing II
program in West Germany) and there was still
more hope than now with COVID-19 and the US
elections, which are about to become a
permanent topic. </div>
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Yesterday,
with the launch of the new NASA Perseverance
rover on Mars and the transmission of the images
from the red planet I was able to feel again a
bit of this positive spirit of hope and
excitement in some of my peers who were not
distracted by the everyday news about gruesome
political wars that media overexpose to the
public and charges the minds with negative
energy and expectations. Where is the science in
the news? I do hope that a new era of curiosity
and adventure is opening now. Maybe this is
the beam of light - Perseverance - that Howard
meant in his former post at FIS about the
exciting new worlds and paradises that wait to
be explored by us, human beings. Because this is
our destiny, as Carl Sagan earlier and Michio
Kaku recently said. We need thousands and
millions of scientists, teachers and professors
like them to push this planet in a different
direction. Politicians and ((a)social) media are
not the heroes of our time. Go to the NASA page
and see what amazing technology we have to
change the world for the good. We should be able
to address this quality of man. May Howard
Bloom's prophecy become true. What we think is
becoming reality. Changing the way of thinking
is essential for the survival of an intelligent
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Have a nice
day. </div>
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<div style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">I put this
email in this forum, because Pedro is limiting
the number of contributions to FIS, which is OK.</div>
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