Tipping the scales

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The world is powered by dreams. It has not just survived, but it has evolved and thrived because human beings have had both the ingenuity and the determination to build and discover something new during every moment. Today, our lives are remarkably more effortless than they were in the past. Information is not only more accessible to everyone, but it is easier to understand and use in a context that is beneficial to each person.  Just around 300 years ago, the very idea of science was so uncommon that human beings were killed for possessing or proposing knowledge out of the ordinary. Today, however, even children as young as 5 years old can provide scientific explanations behind the phenomena that affect our world.

With all this taken into consideration, it is not difficult to see that rapid global development has given mankind wings with which to soar through time and create things that our ancestors would not even dare to dream of. Yet, we have also been left with a searing, suffocating question. A question that stifles our young people and extinguishes all traces of passion or zeal in them. What is left for us to discover?