Who Says Slavery is Gone?

When thinking about human trafficking, the cruel activity of shipping Africans to America for slavery comes to mind. In today’s world, the term slavery is no longer formally used to describe people in forced labor and subjected to other exploits including of the sexual kind. Even though there is no formal and legal slave trade in the 20th and 21st century, trafficking in human beings for similar purposes that constitutes slavery still exists; ironically, in much greater numbers.

Estimates by international experts reveal a scary reality of the world today: 200 million people are victims of human trafficking in the 20th century alone as compared to 12 million people who were brought from Africa to America as slaves from the 1500s to the 1900s. Many of the today’s victims of human trafficking, be it males, females, and children are treated no better than the African slaves of the bygone era. Slavery of the 21st century is perpetrated by organized crimes with the activity bestowing upon them annual proceeds of 7 to 10 billion US dollars; third in rank after narcotic drugs and weapons – certainly a very serious challenge faced by the international community today.

Futuristic Organic Nano-bots Promotes Eternal Life

The advances of nano-technology, specifically futuristic organic nano-bots able to replicate human cells will one day give humans the opportunity to live forever, no more deaths by natural cause and from old age.

Cancer & every other know disease will be a thing of the past as the organic nano-bots become part of body system that consistently maintains the physique of a person to a young adult age and rids anything that is not meant to be in the body’s natural system. Even what used to be fatal to humans like gun shot wounds for example will no longer hold true as the organic nano-bots intelligently transforms themselves into cells of human tissues, bones, organs, & etc as quickly as how the bullet tears away into the body. Basically, the outcome is that the bullet is seen to harmlessly & even painlessly pass through the body.

At the rate our technologies progresses today, it would not be surprising for the organic nano-bots to be a reality somewhere in the future. Perhaps the achievement will be possible within another hundred years of human progress. Will such an achievement of humankind be a blessing or will we be placing a curse on ourselves which might include losing our natural selves: how we exist today on earth to live, breed and die; for the sake of what some people would term as our own natural ‘evolution’? Organic nano-bots in essence changes nothing about humans. Humans are beings of progress and have dealt with changes for thousands of years in our recorded history.

Overpopulation & freedom of reproduction will be the main issues faced by humans of which eternal life is commonplace. The worst drawback of such a potentially eternal existence would be overpopulation and humans could starve to death as food source quickly & dangerously depletes, especially in nations with incompetent governments. Also, population control could become so stringent that nobody will make babies with the exception of the privileged super rich & powerful which even for them would be in a very limited fashion. Freedom of reproduction will continue to be an issue, at least until humans are able to colonize stars to further fill the entire universe with our colonies.