Improving our future lives

Abstract

This is truly an idealistic chapter as it is simple to recognize past mistakes in human activity, with all the weaknesses of behaviour for personal advancement and wanting power or wealth, that have led to wars and persecutions. Identifying typical human imperfections is simple, but trying to overcome them is perhaps an impossible challenge, not least as the faults of greed or power have often been the inspiration, or funding, for many of the advances which we now see as being very positive science. Our difficulty is to exploit the human weaknesses as motivation, but limit their extent so as to have progress without the negative aspects. Human imperfections can potentially destroy both countries and cultures, hence thoughts on how to attack such problems are considered.