Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Miracles were once categorized under fiction or fantasy.The advancement of technology has made it something a new normal happening in the life of the humans.The evolution of humans as the well-developed and possessing the sixth sense has already had its own positive and negative impacts.Yet the irreversible evolution has given humanity a status of creator with the invention of Technological advancements especially with those made in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Super Intelligence, Self-aware computers and the machines developed with sentience.This scientific development has not only enhanced the human possibilities but is also able to perform actions that were considered humanly impossible.A British fiction writer Arthur C Clarke once has written in his book, The Exploration of Space as "The choice, as Wells once said, is the universe-or nothing.It is the role of the future men to make life both broader and deeper, to go on learning and creating to the end of time.Though I cannot predict what form this expansion will take, I am convinced it is only by venturing into space that we can survive the coming centuries and carry this priceless essence to the stars"(Clarke 129).Clarke's opinion is gaining strength with the advancement of the technology.The form that he was unsure is now turning out to be the technological implementations in the daily walks of life.The opinion stands true or as an example for Heinlein's inspiration to write the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.The novel is set in the future of 2075, where Luna (the Moon) serves as the penal colony controlled by the Earth as an absentee rule using the central super-computer Mycroft Holmes.Mike takes care of the critical systems of allocation of resources and environmental imbalances.Luna being a penal colony is a home to the criminals, political exiles and their descendants.They are punished by forcing
Authors: V Ravi Kumar, K Kaviyarasu
Institution: Kongunadu Arts and Science College
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411458264