>> ...We are locked within our own very
>> limited concepts.

>

>> Coericion is plainly impossible now. We wouldn't allow it. It is
>> unconscionable. So how do we move to the next phase in  our
>> colonisation?

>

>> Only by the creation of - and acceptance of - a vast vision of a human
>> role in the future, a role in the future of the planet and,
>> ultimately, in the future of the universe.

>

>> Joseph Humming

>
> The Religion of Humanity becomes ...the true Positive religion, the
> only one capable of replacing Catholicism. Like the Catholic religion,
> Positivism will have its cult, its dogmas, its ceremonies, its
> "consecrations" or "social sacraments" by which to sanctify "all
> present phases of private life, systematically tying them to public
> life" (Positive Catechism). Months will take the meaningful names of
> Positive religion and the days of the week will be consecrated each to
> one of the seven sciences. Lay temples will be built (scientific
> institutes) and a Positive pope will exercise his authority on those
> who will be committed to the development of industries and to the
> practical use of discoveries. In Positive society woman will become
> the guardian and the source of the sentimental life of Humanity.
>
> Humanity will be the Great Being, space will be the Great Environment,
> and the earth the Great Fetish: this is the trinity of the Positive
> religion.
>
> COMTE - and "The Religion of Humanity"http://membres.lycos.fr/clotilde/etexts/harrison/religion.htmhttp://www.najaf.org/english/book/8/2...
>
> Scientific & Technological Utopianismhttp://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/SF/chrono.html

>
> Scientific and technological utopia are set in the future, when it is
> believed that advanced science and technology will allow utopian
> living standards; for example,
>
>  the absence of death and suffering;
>  changes in human nature and
>  the human condition.
>
> These utopian societies tend to change what "human" is all about.
> Technology has affected the way humans have lived to such an extent
> that normal functions, like sleep, eating or even reproduction, has
> been replaced by an artificial means.
>
> Other kinds of this utopia envisioned, include a society where human
> has struck a balance with technology and it is merely used to enhance
> the human living condition (e.g. Star Trek).
>
> Opposing this optimism is the prediction that advanced science and
> technology will, through deliberate misuse or accident, cause
> environmental damage or even humanity's extinction. Critics advocate
> precautions against the premature embrace of new technologies.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
>
> Technological utopianism derived from the belief in technology --
> conceived as more than tools and machines alone -- as the means of
> achieving a 'perfect' society in the near future. Such a society,
> moreover, would not only be the culmination of the introduction of new
> tools and machines; it would also be modeled on those tools and
> machines in its institutions, values and culture

>
> ...More clearly, more methodically and more intensely than any other
> group, the technological utopians espoused positions that a growing
> number (even a majority) of Americans during these 50 years were
> coming to take for granted, or wanted to: the belief in the
> inevitability of progress and the belief that progress was precisely
> technological progress.
>
> ...The utopians were not oblivious to the problems technological
> advance might cause, such as unemployment or boredom. They simply were
> confident that advancing technology held the solution to those
> problems and to other, chronic problems, including scarcity, hunger,
> disease and war. In addition, they assumed that technology would solve
> the psychological problems that were increasingly worrisome, such as
> aggression, crowding, rudeness, and social disorder.
>
> ...Despite its basis in modern technology, technological utopia was
> not to be a mass of sooting smokestacks, clanging machines, and
> teeming streets. The dirt, noise, and chaos that invariably
> accompanied industrialization in the real world were to give way in
> the future to perfect cleanliness, efficiency, quiet and harmony
>
> ...Connecting all sectors of the technological utopia would be
> superbly efficient transportation and communication systems, powered
> almost exclusively by electricity. These systems would enable widely
> dispersed citizens to live and work wherever they might choose. As one
> of them puts it, 'we have practically eliminated distances.' The
> specific means of transportation would include automobiles, trains,
> subways, ships, airplanes, even moving sidewalks. The means of
> communication would include pneumatic mail tubes, telephones,
> telegraphs, radios, and mechanically composed newspapers.
>
> http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/science_fiction/jenkins/jenkins_1.html