| By Bill Haley Every physical resource that is needed to create all the highly advanced products of the year 2100 is available to everyone on earth during this year of 2019. We have all the physical resources today to build that spaceship to Mars and flying cars. The material to build computers over a trillion times more powerful than our best supercomputer is currently at our fingertips. The supplies necessary to create nanobots that will cure most diseases are here. The reason no one is creating all these advanced products is the lack of knowledge of how; not because we do not have the necessary physical resources. |  |
 | Thomas Sowell has made the point that people many thousands of years ago had all the same physical resources necessary to make everything we have today. George Gilder is famous for making the point that wealth is knowledge, and learning is growth. George Gilder's understanding of time is profound. I try to emphasize that the more we learn, the more we understand the growing extent of our ignorance. People several centuries ago did not even conceive of so many ideas to realize that they did not know. |
| Donald Rumsfeld stated: “Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.” |  |
 | Would people 1,500 years ago have banded together earlier to form representative republics if they had the knowledge of the results of America’s experiment? Would slavery have ended if MLK was sent back 300 years and preached in Africa with the knowledge he had before he was killed? If a group of medical professors from several disciplines could go back to the year 1,019 with all their current knowledge; would life expectancy have increased? If the knowledge of how to make a hydrogen bomb had been in the hands of FDR in 1940 and FDR showed the world with a couple well-placed explosions off the coast of Japan and Germany, would tens of millions of people still be alive by the war being dissuaded? |
