The nature of war changed
With the emergence of nuclear weapons, there are no big wars on earth. No state has the guts to face the consequences. So, The nature of war has changed exponentially. the future is going to see only technological warfare.
The algorithm as a tactic of warfare:
They have created algorithms that understand an individual more than he understands himself.
Facebook algorithms can predict and manipulate the desires and opinions of a person just by analyzing his likes, shares, and activities; that have been recorded since its usage; in the form of Data.
Two things are needed to get to individual psychology. One is biology. The second is computing powers. Government and organizations will have this advantage with the help of algorithms; they will be able to predict your actions and your thoughts. When this starts to happen, algorithms will have enormous power over humans. The algorithm will be new religion a new God. Algorithms will have the power to guide and control humans. They will have the power to replace the humans in the Job market. The future of jobs will be changed dramatically.
The relevance of Religion in 21st Century
When there was no technological development, people used to search their answers in their religions. But that’s not the case anymore. people trust Science and Technology more than their religions.
The binding force for the masses, which was religion, in the first place, will be shattered more in the near future, as a result of which, there will be chaos on every level.
Other than Islam; there isn't any religion on the face of the earth that is able to provide solid solutions to the 21st century’s dilemmas like homosexuality, feminism, and designer babies. that's resulting in people questioning their religious dogmas.
Its relevance to Muslims
when we talk from an Islamic point of view, you can well see, why the fundamental teachings are abolished from the hearts of the Muslims. with Muslim's ideologies getting superficial and weaker, they will naturally be going to question their religion too. that doesn't mean Islam has no relevance in the 21st century. rather, Muslims are turned away from the basics of Islam. just to make their further diversion easier in the coming future.
Did you know "Dataism" is a new emerging religion:
In an interview with Wired , Harari stated, “Humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system (their brains) in the universe, but this is no longer the case.”
Humans' experiences are going to be converted into data with the help of social networking sites.
Google search results can determine and analyze an outcome of an election, product demand, or an outbreak of a disease.
IOTs (internet of things) will connect humans to machines. Each human will be just a tiny point of Data in an enormous Data network in the future. Using the data of our health, experiences, and habits; artificial intelligence software will analyze and assist us with our decisions in life.
How future leadership will be like
Only those individuals will be able to reach the top and take leading seats in Governments and administrations, who are able to brush aside their religion and can influence the society only through their hold, over technology.
why will it happen? because Technology will have enormous influence over our lives that our lives will be deficient without it. the only superpower is going to be technology.
Sidenote
Economic development:
Economic development comes at the price of termination of social structures and ecological destruction.
Environmental
damage from economic growth is evident to all classes but nobody wants to put a
full stop to their advancement. Governments want to rule, corporates want their
share of profit and common masses want their share of prosperity.
that's not our topic; but, just a glace at; what deadly ecological challenges we are going to be facing. I happened to read a book (The 80 minutes MBA by Richard Reeves and John Knell) which shocked me a great deal as to how the planet earth is getting uninhabitable.
1. Global Warming
In recent times; there is a 2 Celcius rise in the world's temperatures. we are losing coral reefs and mountain Glacier masses. rise of temperature to 3 Celsius will crumble Amazon tropical jungle and Greenland's ice sheet transforming the land into desert across the American Midwest and Southern Africa.
2. Population growth
The total populace which is 6.7 Billion now, will rise to 9.2 Billion from now to 2050: the increment of 2.5 billion is larger than 1950's world's populace. giving rise to poverty, environmental pollution, and exhaustion of resources.
3. Reduction of polar ice
The reduction of the polar ice is a major concern, in light of the fact that the white cap work as a coolant network, reflecting back the sun's beams. rising of sea level is a great threat to the existence of coastal cities on the threat.
Ideologies that are shaping humans characters:
Ideologies like Neo-Fascism, Liberalism, libertarianism, progressivism, socialism, Nationalism, humanism, capitalism will be replacing religions in the 21st century.
Islam's Stand on the crooked Ideologies
Islam nullifies such beliefs. Since its center assault is on its dependability upon Allah and His Superiority and on His teachings. nothing is more superior and no other opinion matters against Allah's. no pact is more sacred than Allah's, no code of life is more authentic than given by Quran. These ideologies aim to divert the energies of Muslims and bring in puppet governments for Muslims and putting discord among them just to make them weaker.
How human emotions will be manipulated in the future:
Coming times will see major advancements in the field of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, biotechnology, artificial intelligence. These advances will greatly affect the social settings of society; including; rendering masses worthless.
Our innate desires are created
from the chemical reaction inside our brains. But these reactions can be altered
by the use of drugs, genetic engineering, and brain stimulation. This means
that anyone having the upper hand and power over an individual can easily manipulate their circumstances and deduct the conclusions of
their desires.
Humans as Immortals being:
Humans have been in search of keeping themselves ever young and becoming immortal, by avoiding death. to fulfill this desire; Nanorobots will be injected into the blood vessels of the human body to keep us safe from diseases and prevent aging. Life would appear to become immortal with the help of these technologies.
Sidenote
Being a Muslim, you can relate these circumstances to the
predictions in Ahadith about how Dajjal is going to give life and death to people. You
can see the picture a bit clearer now, how it's going to be possible.
The human body feels pain or pleasure because of the chemical reaction in the human brain. People will initiate to modify their mental and biological reactions to get everlasting happiness through manipulating technologies.
The most unprecedented alteration the human body will come to see is from biological amplification as a result of magnificent cognizance into our genomes. IVF technology may allow us to select the most brilliant embryos and powerful CRISPR technology which is also called Gene Editing, which enables people to change an entity's DNA. Using this technology, people will be able to alter, modify and demolish certain things in Genome.
They will be able to alter their DNA and create some drastic
changes in their hereditary and in their characteristics. These advancements
will be considered greatly beneficial to humans and people will be duped to be
positive about it and that’s the whole point of Dajal (Being Duped) here.
"Cyborgs" as a new black
Like, they have shown in
different movies in the west. People will start to have nonorganic parts
attached to their organic parts. Those half-man and Half-machine are called
cyborgs.
Some individuals will enhance their physical and mental capacities using the nanotechnology that they will turn into a superhuman.
Robots as workers
Robots will be doing most of our work. industries will be robotized. humans will be able to go through a surgical procedure using artificial intelligence. hence, no need for human doctors or human staff.
As a result of these circumstances, Masses will become futile and unemployed
which will give rise to unrest, poverty, unemployment, vandalism. Giving rise to the worst crimes eventually.
No Scrutiny means no discipline
When religion is removed inwardly, there will be no criterion of right and wrong, there will be no fear
of being accountable or scrutinized, which will lead to moral degeneration in society. The kind of which human history hasn’t witnessed yet.
Humans as Gods, AKA "HomoDeus"
Humans will be turning into superhumans using artificial intelligence, brain simulation, and nanotechnology in the near future.
Two terms are used to explain this concept: Homosapien to HomoDeus. As used by Yuval Noah Hariri in his books.
Homosapiens which is a Latin Word. Homo means human and Sapiens means wise.
HomoDeus is also Latin. Deus means God, the Term means “humans that are god”.
Future is going to see humans that are turned into God through manipulating the means.
Meaning humans are going to go so far in achieving all the super potents that they will have huge power and impact on humanity as a whole.
(We will have kinds of contact lenses that will capture images and record videos in the future, universal language translator earbuds will be available for us to communicate with people anywhere in the world, and exosuits that will be there to amplify our physical potent).
Which again, you can relate to the Ahadith referring to Dajjal and his powers over humanity.