On the Implementation of Technology

摘要

In 1999, I was told by one pre-lecture, margarita-guzzling professor at the University of San Diego, that Political Science was the pursuit of, acquiring of, and use of power, which always has a direct correlation to quantity of money. According to Professor Stoddard (whose sole course text assigned to his Introduction to Political Science class at the University of San Diego was the treasonous, criminally long, and boring Diplomacy, by Henry Kissinger), the two words are almost always interchangeable, with very rare exception. I never bought it. Neither should John Kerry, if he finds the survival of the Democratic Party, and our nation, desirable. What about the power of the human mind to imagine a better world, and to act on that principled idea of a possible future reality, brighter, better than our current one? Does that not have relevance? Is that not real Power? What I have come to find through studying the great American minds who have led the world in the fight for Universal human progress, is that the principled truth underlying the push for human progress (technological innovation), is the knowledge that human beings are made in the image of the Creator, as implied in our nation's founding documents. This means that through the power of our minds, we all have the chance to act in an immortal fashion, through our contributions to future generations of mankind, that will continue to have effects long after we die, shaping the curvature of the Universe for generations to come. We all have the power of hypothesis, and we can all change our environment to better suit our creative nature, and that's good!