Humanity-it’s been a long journey from our ape forefathers to being called the rulers of the planet, the Homo sapiens. But have been gone too far in too less time. Has the technological advancement has been too fast, way faster than our genetic mutations. Has technology gone too ahead of the curve of evolution, so very much that we cannot sustain it anymore?

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Since the advent of biological life forms on our little planet Earth, life has been a journey. Evolution is one single best invention in the world. It won’t be wrong calling it God’s best tool, the most beautiful invention of his brain. Since our forefathers started playing with their tools, it’s been a long journey to computers and wireless technology and touch screens and gadgets our previous generations couldn’t think of. But the question is- Are we going to fast? It has not been long enough since the time the apes started to experiment with wooden sticks in forests as a tool to dig up ants from their burrows and eat them to the present age of artificial intelligence. Research shows that the curve of technological advancement is not a linear one, it is highly exponential that too getting even more exponential as its exponentiality increases i.e. as time passes; looks like a nested loop; it just feels too fast. Are we getting too close to the singularity point? With new discoveries continuing to take place, new path breaking research in medication, scientists have been coming up with a cure for almost everything. The only disease left to get a cure is probably AIDS.  But as researchers come up with stronger medicines and better cures, the viruses fight back too with better immunity to these medicines and vaccines. How long can we fight this war? And who wins it at the end of it all? Is it possible that someday a virus comes up with a strain so strong that we are not able to find a cure in sufficient time lapse. This looks like a possibility to me at least. The improvement through mutation in our genes has not been that fast our bodies are not made to tackle such virus strains but are medicines are. But the question is for how long. With the world being so connected today, it seems like a impossible task to control the spread of a disease and turning it into a mass killer, an epidemic. In the last few years, we have seen the rise of new viruses , diseases never heard of before like SARS, bird flu and now swine flu affecting thousands worldwide. It is a prediction that it would take an epidemic, a killer virus less than two months to create havoc worldwide.If the world is ending any soon,I believe the most probable and efficient tool for nature is a virus.