We have the tools
-A planet-wide communication platform
-The ability to reach all humans with messages quickly
-The technology to interact with each other on a
global-basis
-A planet-wide learning platform
We have the
expectations
-Humans want to know more about the universe around them
-Humans want to know what is happening on their own planet
-People want that communication to be objective in nature
-People expect to be engaged
-Humans want to listen to each other and then form opinions
of their own
We have the mental
ability
-Humans can handle rapidly changing situations
-People can digest a great deal of information quickly
-We are resilient
-We can learn new things quickly
-We can update our global perspective when presented with
new information
Is all of this enough to enable humans to handle alien First
Contact with a positive outcome? That can certainly be debated. What is clear
is that we didn’t have many of these tools or attributes even twenty years ago.
We are changing in ways that we could never have imagined. First Contact, in
this environment of massive change, would be simply new challenges and
opportunities for humanity. Perhaps we are ready.
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