Perfection
There is about 8 billion people on this planet, and each one of those people have there own idea on what it means to be a modern person. And one of the aspects of being a modern person to the want to be more perfect in all ways. But perfection is a unreachable desire of the majority. And if perfection is ever reached it could potentially be our downfall.
There has been many books writen throughout time that presents the thought of perfection. For example “The Great Gatsby” by (Fitzgerald), this book was based on the american dream in the 1920s, and that dream was saying that to reach perfection to the human eye you must have a perfect house, family, car, and must have a lots of money and a lot of people in the 20s
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And with this we are also creating more intelligent machines. Some time ago an essay was published by (Ray Kurzweil) called “The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine” this article goes over a lot of evolutionary advances our machines have come too and will come to in the future of human existence. There is a quote that states “as this happens, there will be no longer be a clear distinction between humans and machines” (Kuzweil). He is saying that in the near future we will have created such advanced technology that people will not be able to tell the difference between human and machines. This means that a computer system or robot will have every this a human has, thoughts, free speech, and perhaps conscience. And at that point we will have created a perfect object, but with this these machines will exceed its creator wich is humans, this can cause complication and maybe even a danger to all humans and bye creating this perfect “thing” it would be our downfall. So perfection is our downfall and not evan looking at the future, but the past whenever something came close to perfection it