Science Creates the Future

Author: Xu Guanhua
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Publish Date: 2002-06-07
Features: We have stepped through the door of the 21st century. Newton, Darwin, and Einstein are behind us. Before us lies the vast ocean of scientific discoveries and technological inventions. In the past, the power of reason has led humanity out of the shadows of mystery, recognizing and utilizing material culture, energy conversion, and information control, driving the continuous advancement of civilization through science and technology. We have unleashed the immense energy stored in atoms, we have reached the moon, long a dream of our ancestors, we have invented computers to process various types of information, and we have discovered the genes that control life activities. Human creativity will unveil more of the universe's secrets, and science and technology will forge new civilizations. People will no longer worry about resource shortages, and the speed of information will make everything fleeting. We will seek our human origins, we will search for the abode of the soul, we will look for the cradle of extraterrestrial life, we will land on Mars and colonize space, and we will journey to the sacred site of the universe's birth. "Now" is the transit point between "the past" and "the future." Gazing into the "Time-Space Mirror" toward the future, we will see a brand-new world beyond our wildest dreams.