The future for science

On the "chemistry world" tweeter feed was this -

“Hey, know any good jokes about sodium?” “Na.”

So cheesy, kind of nerdy too but come on admit it, it put a smile on your face.

We are in the year 2012, science has advanced so much in the last 20 years or so that we are now looking at technologies that we wouldn’t have even dreamed of decades ago. Thanks to science, thanks to chemistry, we are advancing at a very fast rate.

But what about the future?

A world where economic crisis is effecting the large proportion of homes in America and Europe, finances for education is becoming more of a struggle for students, more and more students see a degree as being not just worth as much as it once did as competition for jobs are becoming fierce. If science at high school level is a subject which students feel they do not want to take because they see it as boring, then putting all these factors together can it lead to a decrease in fully knowledgeable scientists in the future years? If so a world without scientists is a scary thought they are the brains behind all our advances, we must keep science alive. 

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A future without science may be a recipe for disaster the progression of mankind depends on the advancement of science, but how far should science take us? When are we going to past the barrier from trying develop cures to diseases to actually playing God? Let rephrase this a little, have you ever watched the film "Never let me go" Alex Garland's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguru's book. The film is based around three characters, a story about love, about the human soul, about science; these three friends grow up in isolation with others like themselves  from the real world, brought into this world for one purpose to donate their body parts to their original. You see this film is do with cloning, the clones are produced to be kept alive to maintain their organs, so that when their so called “original” becomes ill or is in need of an organ there clone is there to provide. It really was a film that made me think about the progression of science, how far are we going to go?

I found this article on "New scientist" about the future of our species, looking at questions such as

why we will still be here
what will we be like?
How will our language evolve?where will we live?
will there be any nature left?
Will we run out of resources?
and what will our descendants know about us?

Very interesting check it out at http://www.newscientist.com/special/deep-future