Accordingly, the "Future of Humanity" Multiple Projection Simulation had begun.
The beginning of each simulation would align as closely to real-life conditions as possible.
Every iteration and 'simulated run-through', the Future of Humanity Project alongside the Education and Training Academy would learn and grow from its actions and decisions.
It would also allow for the exploration of certain possibilities that might be assumed to be catastrophic or 'a bad move' according to current models of thinking, but which might actually result in better outcomes for the world sometime down the track.
What actually constituted a win for Humanity?
What actually constituted a win for the World?
It was often a matter of perspective. For example, cutting down a Forest might be a win from a logger's perspective.
But done irresponsibly, it could be a loss for Nature and sustainability.
These were frightening issues. From Humanity's Point of View, human life was sacred and good, but from a different perspective, say if we were an alien race looking upon the World impartially, it could be argued that Humanity was just another species that, if left unchecked, might cause irreversible changes to the world for better or worse.
Sustainability, Fighting Climate change, looking after the Planet - was this really possible, or just lip service - something people would fight for but which ultimately be swept aside by humanity's short-sighted preference for short-term profits leading to a 'too little, too late' result?!
With a steadily rising global population, overpopulation was becoming a thing - was this truly compatible in the long run with sustainability and looking after our Planet?
Or was it just the inevitability of the process, that a species would just try to propagate, and to hell be the consequences - like the rise and fall of the Román Empire in History, did everything in the Universe just have a life cycle, Humanity included, and as a result, we should just enjoy the ride with its ups and down, all it's good and bad, it's constants and contradictions?
The aim of the 'Future of Humanity' Project superficially, ostensibly, was about genetic legacy, the Sperm Bank, but as we… swam deeper into the womb of the matter, we could now see that in fact, the true objective was in fact to consider answers to some of these questions and problems.
Of course.
It was the classic World Domination as 'World Optimisation' - except that what 'optimisation' entailed was strongly up for debate…
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There would be various hypotheses tested.
One potential approach of the Education and Training Academy would be aimed at interplanetary travel and colonisation, aiming to give Humanity more and more time to adapt to the vast Universe and its place in it. This was certainly a potential Future of Humanity.
Another potential approach was more focused on making the most of the beautiful Earth we currently enjoyed, and finding a try to truly live and make advances and progress in a genuinely sustainable manner, by building Awareness leading to Incentivised lifestyle changes.
There was even certain views which predicted that the Human Population might self-regulate which was already beginning to be seen in countries such as South Korea and Japán due to the declining birth rate as people began to become increasingly aware of the dangers of overpopulation or expressed a desire to live their lives in a different way to the past.
As you could see, one's vision for what the Future of Humanity entailed would lead to drastically different futures.
The more effort we placed into something, generally the better the results.
Bob wasn't entirely sure what the perfect 'Future of Humanity' looked like.
But, through Valentine's [Multiple Projection] Simulation…
He hoped he could find out more about it.