Story Themes: A Future Without Insects
John Ink2Quill
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A common question we often hear today and I ponder often too is, How will emerging technologies change society and the world? How will emerging technologies change investment and finance, healthcare and diet? These are just some of the most common ones but there are many more.

For example, it is predicted that most of out money and money transactions will be digital and that as a result we will share ownership of money with banks, brokerage houses, subscription companies and the government. That is state and federal for those in the US. that means that your subscription companies will be able to deduct digital monies from your banks accounts without your permission. Picture the cost of a yearly subscription increases and the company just takes the cost along with the increase and sends you an email about it, if they even do. That is to say that entities will soon have the right to go into your money account, look around and do what they need to. Does anyone feel violated yet? I describe such relationships between someone and their banks, businesses and governments like owning a house without doors, windows or locks of any kind. Entities can just walk in, look around, take or even leave what they want. This is a fundamental change in our concept of money and owning assets. This may well be the modern age we are stepping into and I find this strange. Is this a better world we are building?

Other thoughts are our relationships with environments. How will those be? Will we manage our environment better or just let things go with neglect and pollution as the times today seem to be? Well technologies, more particularly AI, will also change our views here too and this really can go either way. We might very well enter a world with better environmental management so problems of pollution and species extinction are slowed and even stopped. Imagine that.

I’ve heard so many stories and read so many articles about the bees disappearing and the catastrophe that awaits us after the last bee is dead. This is a scarry thought. I wouldn’t even want to see mosquitoes going extinct even though they are the biggest killers of people with the diseases they spread. I was in Northern Europe a few years ago in the middle of a scorching summer doing yard work. There were clouds of mosquitoes all around. I was glad we were protected as well as we were but it was still a big, big nuisance. And the mosquitoes were so aggressive. Neither clothes, nets or spray kept them away. It was like a feeding frenzy. And through it all were dragonflies, brightly colored large and small zipping through the cloud of mosquitoes and picking them off one by one. They were fast and precise hunters. They outmaneuvered the frenzied mosquitoes with such agility. I wished I made a video of it. My point is that without the mosquitoes the dragonflies would be hard pressed to find such an abundant food source. I imagine the effects of a mosquitoless summer would have had a ripple effect on the environment there.

I hope that we do not end up building a world where insects, all insects, no longer exist. This is a future that the great minds of Science and Industry (with the help of technologies like emerging AI) can help us avoid. Really though. How about making a good story of what a world without insects would be like. Those are some great storylines to explore.

John Ink2Quill

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