Topics: African Americans, Diaspora, Diversity, Diversity in Science, Politics, Star Trek, STEAM, STEM, Women in Science
The current vitriol broadcast globally during the political season is enough to cause concern and lose hope. The past is set, yet in many cases its impact on current events ignored to our detriment. The future is malleable and in flux, yet the tools we use to discern it and prepare for it - science - some in our society would have us fear to our peril. As a Trekkie, I lament that the future we used to dream of in 1968 has led to our current morass of flirting with a new form of self-government more like play dough anarchy: "Idiocracy" as I've seen oft-quoted in social media was meant to be a comedy, not a documentary. We have elements of our society "rooting for Armageddon" without a discernible or rational "plan B."
My hope in 2017 when Star Trek returns to CBS, we can recapture that awe, wonder and hope catapulting ourselves from superstition and authoritarianism beyond the ignorant darkness into the light only science in its proper context can give.
All links to Star Trek on this blog here.
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies:
The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Apocalypse, Phil Torres
The vertical scroll (link here) first appeared February 26, 2014, reposted for this leap day.
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