Heroes - the new future?

Due to sickness and therefore uncountable hours in the sofa, I have managed to get addicted to Heroes - the TV series - in my opinion one of the best series in a long time. What made me want to blog about this is the fact that a couple of weeks ago we were having one of our lecturers on History and Context of Journalism with Chris, and he spoke about DNA and how our population seem to want to move towards a superhuman society were malfunctioned could be replaced to create 'perfect' human beings.

In Heroes, all main character have got their own superpowers, such as flying, healing, mind reading, telekinesis etc, which might not sound anything like today's society (except for the fact that a British guy actually took off as the wind swept him off of his feet and went flying for a split second, see the Sunday Times, 15/11/09). But if being realistic, these powers can't exist in our society, can they?

In all seriousness though, to some extent they do. Today we are able to 'heal' ourselves by replacing dead cells with alive ones, damaged organs with proper working ones, laser treatments to perfect our vision and so on. We are able to replace sperm, that cannot fertilise an egg, to reproduce, where 50 years or even less ago this wouldn't have been an option. Science moves forward, and with this it enables more and more people to tinker and build their own future. But is this really for the better?

With the revelations about UFO's made by Winchester's City Councillor, Adrian Hicks, that they live on our planet, but 'shrouded in secrecy', maybe we can learn from them and move our science knowledge to a new era. Because according to Mr. Hicks, we were able to create things such as fibre optic silicon chips, lasers and nano technology from their crashed vessels throughout the last 50 years...


Whether or not we're moving into a science fiction type of era with perfect DNA strings and powered up super humans, or staying in our present quickly evolving digital fortress era, time is changing and we along with it. I just hope it is towards the better, and not towards the end of the world...