Author: ФЕДЮЛИН РОМАН СЕРГЕЕВИЧ | FEDYULIN ROMAN
Preface
At the beginning of this work, as an author, I would like to address the readers. This is my second time participating in the Horizon 2100 competition. Last year, I wrote a paper on a topic similar to the one you are about to read. However, despite the similarity of the themes, there is also a cardinal difference. If the previous time the material was based on an attempt to develop existing trends in world politics and trace them in the future until 2100, then this year I decided to go a completely different way. I imagined what if I were in the year 2100 right now? How will the political system of the world, economic, scientific, technological, social and many other aspects be arranged? Taking into account the range of issues, an ambitious task was set - to describe the future of the global world and to speak in the appropriate nomination. Of course, after reading this work, the reader may accuse me of being overly optimistic, and I think it's absolutely fair. But I have something to object to. Firstly, no one has canceled the theory of self-fulfilling prophecies. Secondly, as stated in the expert report of the Valdai Discussion Club for 2020, the goal of utopia is "not to describe the future, but to identify a landmark to strive for." I guess I did it.
An important issue is the degree of detail and the sequence of presentation. In my opinion, there were not enough details in the previous work. At the same time, it is necessary to observe a framework of 36 thousand characters and this determines the detail of the material. Now I have tried to touch on the most important areas of the organization of the life of civilization, therefore, the promising "Civilization 2100" was chosen as the title of the entire article. Although I agree that due to the volume, some provisions of the forecast will not have enough specific details. Perhaps this is a good thing, so every reader will be able to add important touches to his imagination. It turns out to be a kind of lego constructor in a simplified version.
There will be almost no habitual quoting of sources in the work. When studying materials for writing a science fiction work, you inevitably encounter two halves of the same problem. On the one hand, the sources presented turn out to be too realistic and the material based on them turns out to be purely scientific, and on the other hand, when going into fantasy literature, it is very easy to lose a rational grain and create a work practically unrelated to realistic forecasting. And in general, there are not so many suitable sources from both sides. Therefore, it was decided to abstract as much as possible from both categories of literature and create an absolutely unique science fiction forecast. It turned out or not to be judged by you, dear readers.
In terms of structuring the work, I decided to go through the separation into industry blocks of the reality of the global world of 2100. This means that there will be a block of world politics, world science, etc. It would be possible to go into details indefinitely in each of the directions, but objectively such an approach is not possible. As well as a description of all spheres of society at the turn of the XXI - XXII centuries. In my opinion, the material pays attention to the most important spheres of life of the civilization of earthlings, and for ease of understanding and orientation, they are actually divided into semantic blocks.
At this point, I think it's time to finish the preface and you can start moving directly to work.
Have fun reading!
Part 1
The future of the global political system
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others," Winston Churchill. And it's hard to argue with this quote from a famous English politician. This is probably why earthlings at the turn of 2100 came to a consensus on global politics. The beginning of the 21st century has generated many conflicts around the globe and threatened the very existence of human civilization. The logical response to the challenges of the time was the consolidation of nations around mutual respect for each other's interests and, above all, the right to harmonious development without harming other countries. The only reasonable way out of the crisis turned out to be the reform of the UN and its rebirth into an international institution that ensures not the interests of specific countries or blocs, but primarily the interests of the development of world civilization.
The system of relations between countries has undergone important changes. In the year 2100, the world is a confederation, but only on a global scale. To visit any country, any citizen who is not sanctioned for offenses does not need to issue any special documents or visas. It is enough to have a passport of the country of which he is a citizen. The only restriction is that you cannot illegally cross borders, you can do this only at special checkpoints where all persons are monitored under the supervision of artificial intelligence to identify possible criminals and prevent the transportation of prohibited items.
To streamline state relations at the regional level, there are so-called Continental Councils - associations of states based on their geographical location on a particular continent, performing part of the administrative, coordination and other functions of the United Nations. There are five such Councils in total: the Continental Council of Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America and Australia, together with New Zealand and the countries of Oceania. Other island territories are attached to the Soviets according to the principle of the closest geographical location. Usually, at the level of the Continental Councils, preliminary discussions are held on issues planned to be submitted to the UN level. There are no other purely regional organizations and associations. As the practice of international relations in the past years has shown, their existence is a direct threat to confrontation between countries and other sides. Therefore, this destructive element has been removed from international politics.
Of course, it is difficult to completely get rid of the difference in the capabilities of certain countries. Because of this, it cannot be said that in the UN at the end of the XXI century, all members have absolutely the same rights. If there is a strict equality of votes within the framework of the General Assembly, then there is a different system in the updated Security Council, which now resolves world issues and some issues of outer space in accordance with the opinion of all countries. The new UN Security Council includes all countries of the planet Earth, while, like the UN, there are four categories of participants: Historical members (USA, Russia, Great Britain, China and France), Developed countries (Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Australia, India and others), Developing countries (Niger, Chad Colombia, Syria, Myanmar and others), Distressed countries (Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and some others), but fortunately there are very few of them left. This division of the world's states allows for a more objective reflection of the real picture of the world and the redistribution of resources for people in need. The member States still have the right of veto, but it is not exhaustive. If 90% or more of the other members of the Security Council vote against the use of the veto by a historical member, then in this particular case the veto is considered annulled. Also, a simple or qualified majority is used in the voting, depending on the issues under consideration. It may seem interesting that there is an inequality of voting among the members of the UN Security Council. The voting scheme looks like this:
• The vote of one Historical UN member is equal to 5 votes of Developed countries, 10 votes of Developing countries and 15 votes of Distressed countries (the last point is planned to be reformed due to a decrease in the number of Distressed countries).
• The vote of one Developed country is equal to 5 votes of Developing countries and 10 votes of Distressed countries.
• The vote of one Developing country is equal to 5 votes of countries in Distress.
• Distressed countries have only one vote each, but this situation changes with the transition to another category of States.
Is such a system harsh? To a certain extent, yes, it is important to understand that there are many arguments in her defense. First, it is a tribute to the Historical members of the United Nations for maintaining acceptable living conditions on earth for a century and a half and preventing a truly World War, which threatened the world closer to the middle of the XXI century. When the confrontation between the most developed countries of the planet was at its peak, trade and sanctions wars began to paralyze the economies of the whole world, and local conflicts swept over almost all regions, it was at this moment that the five leading countries of the world, their political elites saw the anticipation of a nuclear world war and the end of life on earth and at this moment they were able to agree. By showing responsibility worthy of the great Powers. It will always be remembered. Secondly, such a system of vote distribution serves as a sufficient incentive for countries from lower categories to develop and rise to a higher pedestal, and the peoples of these countries more confidently demand from their governments the promotion of their state's voice in the international arena, because there is a legal mechanism for this. Thirdly, such a voting system is present only in the Security Council, a body that is directly responsible for international stability, and in such matters the authority of the participants, the capabilities of their States, the maturity of their political systems come to the fore, the topics discussed do not give room for error. Other arguments can be given, but let's focus on these.
The absence of the old interstate blocs is compensated by the developed network of international organizations that make up the United Nations. These include the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Health Organization and many others. In some matters, these organizations play a coordinating role for State Governments, while in others their decisions are of priority importance for countries. Most of these organizations include all the world's states, with the exception of highly specialized ones such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and some others.
In general, global policy, and in many ways both regional and local, can be described in a few words: Partnership for humanity, Peace, prosperity. This is the real virtue of global politics.
Part 2
The future of the global economic system
"Economics is the art of satisfying limitless needs with limited resources," Peter Lawrence is a Canadian-American educator and writer. Humanity really has unlimited needs in satisfying its desires. However, in the middle of the 21st century, these needs came into direct conflict with the survival of the Earth's civilization and a revision of the economic model of the world was required. Scientific progress and the sense of self-preservation of Earthlings became the basis of such reformation. In 2100, among the main economic achievements, several facts can be noted at once.
Under the influence of globalization and the rapid development of electronic technologies, the national financial systems of States have become closely integrated into the global monetary network within the framework of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. A single global currency was created called Tellus, translated from Latin planet Earth. This innovation has brought tremendous benefits to all people and simplified life with frequent travel and contacts with representatives of different countries. Now, in most cases, state central banks acted only as coordinators of the use of the world currency and solved local issues of their countries, and the general regulation of the single currency lay with the international banking system. Almost the entire Tellusa money supply was presented in electronic form. It was in this form that the currency was used by businesses, states, international organizations and many people. However, in some societies there were still a significant number of private cases of using old paper money, some still believe that they contribute to savings.
Technological progress plays a significant role in the economy. By 2100, technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics, automation, the development of highly efficient energy sources and many others had made significant changes in the economic order. In entire industries, there has been an almost complete replacement of human labor with robotic or semi-robotic labor. The majority of factories have abandoned human labor and entrusted production to robots and artificial intelligence under partial supervision and maintenance of highly qualified human specialists. Actually, this approach allowed us to partially balance the reduction of jobs in production sectors with the emergence of new spheres and working professions, including those related to the development, maintenance and management of new technologies.
Another new direction of using labor, including human labor and economic growth, was the colonization of the Moon and Mars by 2100. The settlement of these cosmic bodies made it possible to increase the extraction of minerals and, as a result, the production of high-tech products on the celestial objects themselves. Soon after the start of manned expeditions, a large number of scientists, builders, industrialists and just adventurers appeared who wanted to go on a space odyssey. Colonization of new planets has made it possible to ensure stable technological growth of the earth's economy, and in the future it will make it possible to relieve the Earth from man-made stress and turn it into an ideal world.
In any society and at any time, there are always people who, for one reason or another, have not been able to adapt to life. In an age of unprecedented technological progress, such people should not be poor. To solve this problem and prevent destructive social phenomena, at the suggestion of the United Nations, a minimum guaranteed income was introduced for all people without means of livelihood. Such material support is provided even in countries in distress, but only to a lesser extent. You can't live on a grand scale with the amount you receive, but it makes it possible for anyone to exist quite tolerably, and its insufficiency for a rich existence motivates you to find yourself in life as a professional.
The situation in the sphere of business and transnational corporations can be described as "care and control" by the governments of states and the United Nations. On the one hand, trade duties have been abolished (with the exception of goods harmful to human health), and on the other hand, companies pay hefty taxes to the budgets of the states in whose territories they operate, and to the UN budget if the corporation is international. And representatives of such corporations annually make reports on their activities at the United Nations or other international organizations. Private business is an essential pillar of the established world order.
The increasing awareness of environmental problems and climate change has led to the transformation of the purely economic aspects of the global system. In the year 2100, great attention is being paid to environmental efficiency, renewable energy sources and emissions elimination. The energy system is based on alternative energy sources such as solar energy, wind energy, water, closed-loop thermonuclear reaction and other successful technologies. There is an extensive system of standards, financial incentives and tax mechanisms to encourage businesses to adopt sustainable practices at the national and international levels to prevent pollution of the planet. The business models themselves are constantly changing and adjusting in order to stimulate the sustainable development of production.
The task of the economy at the end of this century is not only to ensure the welfare of society, but also to preserve the stability of this very society. The factors of maintaining this stability include social, political, moral stability, environmental well-being, scientific progress and other spheres of life. A responsible economy pays attention not only to wealth. At its center is society, people. The economic system of 2100 is guided by this principle.
Part 3
Global ecological balance
"We won't... to be too flattered by our victories over nature. She takes revenge on us for every such victory," Friedrich Engels said. Throughout human history, the price of progress has usually always been paid by nature. And at a certain stage in the development of human civilization, such an approach was justified, but not in the 21st century. Here, as in the issue of the political balance of the world system, the choice was between death or existence and further development. And when the bony hand of the end of time is already reaching for the shoulder of humanity, it immediately becomes much easier to reconsider the model of exploitation of nature for harmonious coexistence with it.
In the second half of our century, humanity realized the need to protect the environment and began to take decisive measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase the energy efficiency of its energy consumption model and transition to renewable energy sources, materials and the reuse of resources. Thanks to the fusion of thought and technology, the ecological situation on the planet has stabilized, and natural ecosystems have begun to recover. By 2100, the civilization of earthlings had reached a new level in understanding and managing the environment not only of the Earth, but also of the colonized Moons with Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. New approaches, technologies and discoveries have allowed people to live in harmony with nature. In ensuring mass life, it was possible to completely abandon fossil energy sources. If internal combustion engines or natural gas are used somewhere, it is done by individuals and usually causes public censure. It's like swearing in a public place, not very welcome.
In general, the emergence of new biotechnologies has made a great contribution to the protection of the Earth's ecology. As a result of the work of bioengineers, it was possible to revive many species of extinct plants, animals and fish. Thus, it was possible to bring back to life the plant families Pleuromeia, Savdonia, Calamite, Archaeopteris and some others. In this regard, the issue of initial control over their distribution in nature has become important for successful integration into the current ecosystems. A large number of nature reserves and protected areas with a special status have appeared on the planet. For the convenience of their use by all segments of society, they were divided into three main groups: free-to-visit reserves, closed or semi-closed protected areas with a special status and research sites for scientists to work in the natural environment. By the way, deforestation has been prohibited for a couple of decades. Special forest polygons have been created for construction and production needs, where, after cutting down the territory, new seedlings are planted, which grow in an accelerated mode with the help of modern fertilizers.
The situation with animals develops according to a similar principle. With the help of biotechnology, mammoths, some species of dinosaurs, marsupial wolves, the Antillean hamster, the Caucasian bison, the Javanese tiger and other animals began to walk around the planet again. The issue of adaptation for such different species is very important and takes a long time. One must believe that all of them will eventually find their new home on Earth. Scientific research reserves also help in this matter, where each bred species undergoes primary acclimatization to slightly changed living conditions on earth. Hunting in the wild has become completely illegal, the only legal way to shoot a bear are special sanctuaries where animals are specially bred for such purposes, although hunting in 2100 is no longer very popular. Augmented reality technologies and space tourism have greatly displaced such old-fashioned hobbies.
Sustainable development is impossible without high-quality waste disposal of various types. For these purposes, the whole world is entangled in a network of gardens for recycling garbage and extracting useful resources from it. The only legal way to eliminate garbage is to recycle it. Such a system works even in the space colonies of earthlings, other planets also cannot be polluted. The other side of solving the garbage problem is the use of rapidly decomposing materials, especially in packages and disposable tableware. Because even under the threat of high fines, some people still continue to litter, just like 80 years ago...
In turn, the absence of environmental pollution leads to an improvement in the quality of nutrition of the population. The world has never known such a variety of food! With the help of high-quality fertilizers, unmanned vehicles and artificial intelligence guiding robots in food production, man found himself at the top of food abundance. Of course, there is artificially grown meat, and many vegetables, fruits, and grains. They are significantly cheaper in terms of the price of so-called natural products, and they are not inferior in their taste and quality properties. Although gourmets can argue with these statements. In any case, the choice of your food basket is up to each person personally.
The elimination of landfills and waste left over from previous generations of Earthlings has been declared a matter of the XXII century. Their volume is so large that the entire project will last at least several decades until the last cemetery of radioactive waste is cleared. But most people are confident in the value of this mission and its importance for the future of civilization and the planet.
The main achievement of the XXI century was the achievement of an environmentally neutral existence within the entire planet Earth and significant progress in this direction in our space colonies. Now technological progress plays a key role in maintaining ecological balance. Ecosystems, including wetlands and marine ecosystems, are being preserved and restored, and the overall sustainability of the previously seriously shaken ecology is growing. All this was achieved thanks to scientific thought and the willpower of human civilization.
Part 4
The Future of global science
"Only science will change the world. Science in a broad sense: how to split an atom, and how to educate people," Nikolai Mikhailovich Amosov, a Soviet medical scientist. In many ways, it is precisely scientific discoveries that determine the development of mankind. Science affects all spheres of human life in one way or another, from nutrition to entertainment. It also affects global processes such as international politics, economics, colonization of new territories in space, social development of society and other spheres. By 2100, progress had taken a giant step forward, and this was significantly influenced by the acceleration of scientific processes. To put it simply, technologies produce new, unique technologies. Now the life expectancy of a person for a period of 150 years is absolutely normal due to the development of gerontology and a complex of other sciences and technologies. And such a life expectancy, in turn, has a direct impact on human productivity and, most importantly, leads to an increase in the mass of scientific discoveries. From this point of view, it is very effective when a scientist can work on a study not for 20 years, but for example for all 40. It is impossible to cover all areas of scientific knowledge, but let me try to tell you about the main ones.
First of all, the basis, foundation and foundation of any scientific system is the education and training of future scientific personnel. There may still be quite significant differences in educational systems and approaches from state to state, but at the global level, a unified standard for personnel training has been developed, starting from preschool education and ending with higher education. This standard is based primarily on gaining new knowledge through practice, freedom of choice of the student, constant creative search, continuous learning and real consolidation of acquired knowledge and skills. Each student, starting from high school, is usually assigned an adult mentor from the professional field, to which the teenager shows the greatest predisposition. Thus, continuity of specialists and practical acquisition of knowledge, supplemented by theory from educational institutions, is achieved. And in science, the succession of generations is especially important.
Artificial intelligence has become an important component of modern science. Full-fledged AI appeared towards the end of the 2060s and immediately revolutionized the scientific environment, and other areas too. Now, thanks to this technology, it has become possible to create digital models of events, phenomena and processes that were previously unavailable. AI has become a full-fledged participant in research projects, often doing the bulk of the work. The activity of a modern scientist is impossible without close contact with artificial intelligence, in other words, the task of a scientist is often to direct the potential of AI in the right direction. One can say for sure: the invention of full-fledged artificial intelligence is equivalent in importance to the development of fire by primitive people.
Thanks to the development of technology, it has become possible to begin active exploration of the solar system. A new type of space engines and ships themselves has expanded the capabilities of mankind to transport significant amounts of cargo and people from Earth to Mars and back, not to mention the nearby moon. Residential and industrial areas appeared on these cosmic bodies, and traces of an ancient civilization that died out about 2 million years ago were found on Mars. Their technologies cannot be called breakthrough in relation to ours, but according to scientists, some valuable inventions are still present and we have yet to study them. Space exploration is directly pushing human civilization towards new scientific discoveries. The terraforming of new planets, agriculture in space, the extraction of new types of minerals, the creation of more advanced spacecraft with all their "stuffing", the construction of bases in new conditions - this is far from an incomplete list of challenges that space poses to science and it has no other way but to solve them.
There is also noticeable progress in genetic research. We have already touched on the topic of cloning extinct animals and plants above, but in fact genetics has advanced even further. Now it is able not only to breed new species of animals, create biorobots, put the desired characteristics in the DNA of plants, but also to influence the human genome, using one or another of its sides. Genetic scientists have learned to completely exclude diseases from the human body that are genetically embedded in it and are inherited. For example, cancer. Now it is possible to artificially grow new organs ideal in their characteristics for transplantation to those in need, directly in the human body to start the process of growth of a new tooth in place of a rotted old one, by regenerating the tissues of the eyeball to correct and improve vision without surgery. In place of a lost arm or leg as a result of traumatic amputation of a limb, a new one can be grown in the laboratory to match the unique parameters of this particular person. Active research is continuing to improve the body's parameters for resistance to space weightlessness.
Another important part of innovation is the fusion of human consciousness with a computer. It has become possible to install a kind of processor in the human brain that reads brain impulses and based on them transmits commands to the computer, acting as a transmitter. People have not yet learned to communicate with the help of thought, but with its help they can use a computer quite well. Such an innovation has greatly accelerated production and household processes, now coming home or to work it is enough to think about turning on the light in the room, as the system lights it itself on the basis of this thought.
And thanks to computers and artificial intelligence, almost all transport has become completely unmanned. Cars, trains, planes, ships and even spaceships have an unmanned control function. It is enough to get into a taxi and at the pre-specified address in the order application, the car will take you to the right place, and the simulator will even be able to politely communicate with the passenger. Fully automated cash desks operate everywhere in stores, where a special program sells goods. You can pay by putting your finger on the screen. The system itself identifies the user and debits funds from his electronic account.
The blockchain system helps to defeat the corruption traditionally inherent in the human race. All information about completed projects, amounts spent, performers, and the like is entered into personal data storage units located in all government and international organizations. The information is entered and verified by a computer under the direct supervision of public institutions from local to international levels. Therefore, systematic data substitution and embezzlement of funds as a result are impossible. Thanks to technology, corruption has been curbed.
You can still devote a lot of time and hundreds of scribbled pages to describing the science of the future. The main thing remains that the science of the sample of 2100 has made an unprecedented breakthrough in all areas and is not going to slow down. And the direct consequence of such achievements is an incredible improvement in human living conditions and the expansion of human capabilities. But we must not forget that new scientific discoveries do not remove responsibility from a person in the structure of his life and the lives of other people, great technological opportunities lead to great responsibilities, primarily moral and intellectual.
Part 5
The global future of society
"Being a human being means not only having knowledge, but also doing for future generations what the previous ones did for us," Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is a German scientist, philosopher and publicist. There is always a person behind any progress, and the above quote from an 18th-century German scientist confirms this thesis. And I, in turn, will only briefly give the main social postulates of the year 2100.
• The world's population has shrunk to 6 billion people. About 200 thousand people live outside our planet in total, not counting pendulum migrations.
• The quality of life has improved and the average income of people has increased. Thanks to the minimum guaranteed income, increased wages, the active use of robots in heavy work and other innovations.
• Society has become more free and democratic. Direct elections of politicians, officials and other leaders are held in all countries. The will of the elected Governments of the States, in turn, is the only source of legitimate formation of international organizations.
• The society of the end of the XXI century is an intellectual society, perhaps the most intellectual that has ever existed on our planet. Modern man learns and develops all his life. The most important thing is that such development takes place voluntarily and consciously.
• Social networks play a very important role in the lives of modern people. Thanks to the merging of the mind with the computer, a real holiday has come for lazy people, now you can scroll through the tape on your favorite network without touching the screen with your finger. I wanted to flip the tape down and it's flipping. In general, everything related to virtual space has now become much easier for a person from a technical point of view. Yes, sometimes it is quite difficult to distinguish virtual space from reality.
• Religious cults and institutions have begun to play a much smaller role in society. With the growth of progress, the conquest of space, and the acquisition of new abilities, religion has largely been pushed into the background. Although all major religious movements still exist and even sectarian associations are emerging, these phenomena are not of a mass nature. A person needs to believe in something, so people are now starting to believe in themselves.
In general, behind the apparent simplicity and ease of human life lies a great moral burden on each individual and the entire civilization as a whole. In the age of total technological development, it is easier than ever for humanity to turn from progress towards degradation. It is enough just to relax your body and mind. Technology makes life easier, gives new opportunities, but at the same time creates the illusion of complete control over life and the universe. Under their influence, it is easy to go from the path of development to the path of decline. Therefore, strengthening the mental strength of people, mental, psychological practices play a decisive role in modern civilization.
As history shows, empires often collapse from within. There is no exact information about the existence of alien civilizations in the universe, especially those hostile to us. In the absence of an external threat, one person remains the most dangerous enemy for another. We must believe that earthlings will have the wisdom to finally overcome internal conflicts and come to harmony, at least among themselves.
Conclusion
Forecasting the future is a thankless task. Even if 5% of the forecast does not come true, all of them will still be remembered, and not 95% of the hits. Of course, it is difficult to predict what will happen in the future in 2100. But it seems to me, despite the indicated disadvantages, it is worth doing. It is impossible to accurately predict the details, but it is possible to accurately assess the most likely scenarios for the development of the situation at the global level. Professor Alexander Ivanovich Ageev once told me that there are not so many basic options for the development of the world, there are only a few of them. I will not list each of them, it will take time and symbols. I just want to agree with this point of view. Of course, there are a lot of details that cannot be predicted at all. However, we can and should imagine scenarios for the development of the future, at least in the most general terms, and understand what is good and what is more likely evil.
Perhaps the reader will not find any answers to important questions in my work. In this article, my goal was to outline the general trajectory of the development of global civilization by 2100 and convey the main idea: despite modern difficulties, a positive scenario will prevail in the future. It may not be possible to build a Paradise on earth, it is important not to create Hell by accident or on purpose. The quasi-unipolar world that exists now also does not seem to be the best form of world order. A single space of the Earth can be considered the most reasonable as a platform for universal partnership of states and peoples.
I want to believe that this material will not pass unnoticed by readers and will be able to prompt them to philosophical reflections on the future of the global world, not only political, but scientific, social, spiritual and any other. All aspects are important. I think if I managed to do this, then the work was not written in vain. It is impossible to cover all aspects, but it is possible to give food for further discussion and even projects.
Thanks for reading!