There is nothing in this world that can't be improved. I don't know about anyone else, but I am disappointed in mankind's so-called innovation. We've been dreaming of jetpacks and flying saucer-esque houses for decades, and the generation assigned the task has failed to make these things readily available.
But Ryan, I've seen a commercial/magazine article/Mythbusters episode where they had a jetpack!
That's great, do you have $110,000 to $135,000 lying around?
The issue with our so called "innovation" is it's not truly public, as it ought to be. Every flying machine and aerodynamic sports car is restricted to our nation's wealthiest. It seems as though we'll never have the popular innovation that captured the hearts of the viewers of the Jetsons. Also worth noting are the houses that are designed to be incredibly green or aesthetically pleasing. They all cost exorbitant amounts more because they're unique than because they serve some purpose. In this way, any houses we can consider "futuristic" are reserved for the top tenth of a percent.
I want to shape the world, to be an engineer. I've said "I don't want to live forever, but I'd like to make something that does." Unfortunately, I'm most interested in creating guns and airplanes; machines of war. Seems like I'll be remembered as a murderer. But is it such a crime to design weapons? My philosophy is that everybody deserves a chance to live, even if he must fight for it. It is every man and woman's natural right to live, even if he must kill to preserve that right. As long as my creations are used to preserve these rights and not create terror (Think of in the movie "Iron Man," where Tony Stark loves creating weapons until he finds they're being used by militants in the Middle East), then I'll be content.
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