The age of technology would be a good name for the twenty-first century if we had to name it. Payphones have been replaced by touchscreen cellphones that fit in our pockets, while laptops that fit in our bags have replaced room-sized computers. Our move from horse-drawn carriages to electric cars took occurred over time, with a lot of investment and hard labor, and with unrealistic goals. So, where are the flying automobiles we imagined we'd utilize in the future while watching the scientific series? Despite how far technology has progressed, we can still experience a lot of faults.
The “Long March-5B” rocket was launched into space from the Chinese Space Station on April 29. The rocket's module detached from the rocket after launch and entered its intended orbit, but the main body of the rocket did not land at the originally scheduled location on Earth. The Chinese government has made no statement on the rocket's destiny, but the US Space Forces Command had stated that the out-of-control space rocket will crash to Earth between May 7 and 10.
In previous years, it was observed that rockets that fell out of orbit and crashed into the planet's atmosphere burnt while entering the atmosphere and did not hurt the earth, but this time is different. The Long March-5B rocket's module weighs 22 tonnes and constitutes a threat because no one knows when or where it will fall. The fundamental question that comes to mind is this: we can launch rockets into space, but do we have the technology to anticipate where they will land?
The Apollo 11 mission has been 52 years since the first manned journey to the lunar surface, yet no more missions to the Moon or any other planet have been attempted. There has been no word from Elon Musk's Mars colonisation project, and it does not appear that humans will visit Mars anytime soon.
The Internet and technology have revolutionised and enhanced our lives in every way, yet they haven't been able to answer the questions we've had for millennia. For example, we have no idea what's going on deep within the seas, despite the fact that we've been splitting the atom for years.
With the evolution of medicine and the availability of such high-tech devices, we would be unable to contain a virus without causing millions of people to die. For some disorders, we still don't have a cure. Years pass, humanity grows, adapts, and evolves, but we still have questions that Siri cannot answer. In 2021, we can use a search engine to obtain information from around the world, but if the power goes out or the internet connection goes down, we lose contact with the rest of the world.
Is technology really as advanced as we thought it was? Are smartphones, homes, and automobiles truly intelligent? Humanity is progressing at a rapid pace, but technology does not appear to be keeping up. Will there ever be a time when machines, rather than people, control people?