TED ATAKENT HALKALI COLLEGE / 10-C
The
COMMITTED
The Reshaping
Utku SOLA
From the discovery of fire to the invention of the wheel, all the way to the technological revolution that is Artificial Intelligence( AI), innovation has continued to shape our world from the dawn of mankind. Innovation powers your home, feeds you, and gets you to work. The world constantly changes as more efficient ways of doing things are devised.
Perhaps one of, if not the most significant among these, is the rise of AI. AI can now do so many things you wouldn’ t even think of, had we been living a decade earlier. It now creates images, writes songs, talks and does all sorts of things, thanks to machine learning. Perhaps in the future, AI will replace many jobs, and the most profitable jobs will be AI engineers. AI has and will continue to change our world. This is the first time in history that a non-living thing is capable of learning.
Space exploration will also advance significantly. Recent innovations by SpaceX have made it easier to carry payloads into space. The Starship can carry 250 tons into orbit in expendable mode, surpassing the likes of the Saturn V rocket, the one that got astronauts to the moon. This makes the Starship the most powerful launched vehicle ever created. As space exploration becomes more feasible, it might not be long until we start seeing permanent human settlements on Mars. Perhaps humanity will spread its wings and become a multiplanet species.
We may engage in expeditions to mine the precious minerals present in asteroids, which would undoubtedly become a trillion-dollar industry. It is currently very costly and hard to get metals from the ground into your smartphone. Not to mention
the fact that the metals needed to make your electronics are quite hard to find and exploit, especially obscure ones like Indium and Tantalum. Fortunately, it looks like it’ d be a better idea to look up into space for precious minerals instead of down on the earth. Asteroids can emerge from protoplanetary cores that ultimately don’ t become a planet, leaving a ball filled with all sorts of metals. To give an example, it’ s estimated that 16 Psyche, an asteroid that formed in this exact way, is worth $ 100,000 quadrillion. If realised, an asteroid mining industry could become one of the most profitable businesses out there.
The world changes as humanity’ s ever-growing knowledge are used to handle its various technologies better. It is undoubtable that what the future has in store for all of us will be amazing. We’ ve already done so much and come so far, we’ ve combatted disease, famine, wars and so much more. So, when the stars come calling for us, we will be sure to answer. Humanity was made to inherit the stars.