CAPTAIN ON THE BIDGE

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CAPTAIN ON THE BRIDGE No, Mark, you are not totally correct; the world is not completely different today than it was fifty years ago when I was growing up. The only difference perhaps being that the world has gotten worse. Yesterday, was one year after your eighteenth birthday, I am fifty nine now. Fifty years ago, during 1965, I was nine years of age; I remember it very well. Now you’re saying, “The world of man, today, is better than the world of man fifty years ago.” I disagree with that statement, Mark. I believe for the most part; only technology has progressed, and the governments’ successful manipulation of public opinion. Mark, you said that you feel as though the world has come a long way during the last fifty years, becoming much closer to Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, with hand held touch screen …show more content…

I was just reading about 3D Printers on wikipedia.org. They are an electronic machine, which while using preexisting electronic data builds an object by use of inkjet printer heads, with a type of material that melts while going through the printer, then hardens after being printed in layers. You say; how can this not be a better world then before such wonder technology. I agree on the surface, and feel it’s as if everything used aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, by her crew, during the many original episodes, and even technologies from The Next Generation Series, have come to life seemingly right before our eyes. What you, and other people have not taken notice of, is the fact that the world of man in Gene Roddenberry’s futuristic fantasy, is a world of mankind governed by a one world (Galactic) government. At the same time, you and your friends dismiss the fact that a common cell phone is a tracking device for anyone in government, who has the authority to ping a phone number from their office computer. This ping triangulates the cell phones signal off of at least three different antennae; in essence, Mark, turning your cell phone

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