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If the question was not 'What Are You Optimistic About?' but instead
'What Are You Pessimistic About' then Dan Sperber's answer would be that
the progress of human wisdom is pathetically slow. In the meantime,
greater technological advances have provided wealthy, powerful people a
new way to cause more and more havoc. Therefore, he doesn’t have much
reason to be optimistic about the future of humanity. However, humans
are unpredictable, and often have many surprises up their sleeves. Many
of those surprises are helpful, which in some ways is something to be
optimistic about.
A
endless stream of technological, academic, artistic inventions, many of
them brilliant quality, are becoming free to the public according to
their needs, individuals working to the maximum of their skills. They
often seek self-understanding more than notice and glory. Some examples
of the types: Free-software, Wikis and the open-source software. Some
examples of the individual programs: Blender, Audacity, Gimp*, Firefox
and Opera. Not many people would have thought the Internet would become
quite so popular.Many
free technologies need the Internet. For example: Wikis, Blogs,
Open-access documents and many more. A cheaper or free product is more
desirable than an expensive one. So let us applaud change, wherever it
appears. Many members of the public have observed the economics is odd.
He is optimistic that the development of both individual and collective
forms of altruism on the Internet. The Internet is an organization of
organizations. Each and every single node is a website. Many websites
are colliding, and linking to each other.On
this planet, more and more altruistic acts - acts that had in the past
been intended just for the persons family or clan or state - might now,
out of a sensible sense of common destiny be aimed for the gain of
everyone. Dan Sperber is optimistic about altruism on the Internet.
By AchillesX (9)
Things could always be worse. That is what Robert R.Provine is optimistic about. He wonders whether this is a good source of optimism, knowing your life could be worse. You have probably heard
of the saying 'the grass is greener'. This theory is pretty much the
opposite. Sometimes 'less is more'. In this case, the green grass makes
you just want even greener grass. Also, the green grass will wither, and
become as yellow as the grass that you left. If you have a green patch
of say, 1, and it withers, if you jump to another patch of grass with a
greenness of 1 also, you will not be as satisfied as when you first had a
patch with a greenness of 1. The reason for this is you consciously or
unconsciously try to continually beat yourself. Humans are very
competitive. Philosophers and scientists generally agree that life is
not so much of a race, so much as a marathon, not so much as completing a
goal as a long voyage.By AchillesX (9)
