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The largest single barrier to human development is the physical lifespan.  

 

What you accomplish in life is lost when you die.  In order for your life's work to continue, several factors have to be put in place.  The biggest factor is your personal drive to accomplish your goals.  Only you can perpetuate them, but you are limited by physical degeneration and ultimate death.

 

Typically, career productivity spans about thirty years before most of what you accomplish is simply lost should you fail to record your advancements.  Even if you do find a way to preserve your discoveries, the skills you gain in your life, the vision, the drive to achieve, and more importantly, your personality, are gone after you die.  

 

Now, there is real hope.  Recent scientific discoveries have found a way to completely eliminate death.

 

Yes!  Completely stop the dying process. 

 

How can this be possible, you may ask?

 

The answer has been there all along in the DNA.  DNA is our program of life.   Soon, it will be possible to simply reprogram the human body to regenerate the cells, instead of falling apart after so many years and die.  The results:  indefinite life.

 

Why is this process being kept quiet?  There are several scientific and social barriers keeping immortality under wraps.

 

Professionally, doctors and scientists are quite aware of the possibilities of immortality, but they are under the scrutiny of the scientific community to maintain thier reputation as a professional and not make rash, untested claims.  The science of reprogramming the human body is still being tested.  Anything that changes humanity is still controversial both scientifically and morally.

 

One of the biggest challenges to immortality is the church, or religion.  What would happen to religion if the basic tenets of religion: faith, heaven, life after death, or God, if death becomes less prominent?  That's another story for another time.

 

Of course, people will still die, just not as quickly.  Lifespans would go into the hundreds of years, maybe the thousands.  Old age would be a thing of past, since the cells would constantly regenerate, speculatively keeping your age somewhere in your twenties, as far as appearance is concerned. 

 

Productively, humans would be able to continue developing skills for thousands of years.  Human development would progress geometrically by building on each other's skills throughout a span of many hundreds or even thousands of years, instead of just thirty, as it is now.

 

Imagine if Dr. Albert Einstein was still coming up with theories for space and time, or if Thomas Edison was still making his wonderful inventions, or if Steven Hawking could collaborate with Einstein.  Don't you think humanity would already be exploring the universe in innumerous ways, from worm holes to quantum drives, to whatever?  No doubt, other intelligent beings of the universe would be common contacts for trade and exchanges of information on health, science, engineering, and social development.

 

In summary, scientific advancement is held back by individual lifespan.  This lifespan is about to be increased by hundreds of years, thus boosting humanity into super advancement.  Two hundred years of deathless development would equal two thousand years of the present system.

 

 

 

 

The question of what makes a good writer springs up in my mind from time to time like a quest for a secret formula.  At least, finding that secret was foremost on my mind many years ago when I decided to stick my pen forward and offer my own ideas in the written format instead of the spoken one as I had more conveniently been accustomed in the broadcasting world.

 

I decided to start my writing career with a boost from a writing course online with a group of like-minded beginning writers on www.writersvillage.com.  The secret formula should be there, I thought.  All I have to do is find it, learn it, and put it to use.  It’s as simple as that.

 

The course was great.  Like a Marine drill instructor, the teacher had us pour over written material and write a homework lesson every day.  Everyone was required to read every other student’s work online and give a detailed review as it related to the assignment at hand.  It was very time consuming but worth it.  All the while I was intent on finding the secret formula.

 

After three or four weeks of this, I became impatient.  I wanted to know the formula. 

 

I finally decided to email one of the students in the group who was already a published author on several counts:  a book, many magazine articles, and website stuff.  Maybe he could slip the secret to me and I would know.  What he said astounded me.

 

“You’re already a good writer, Ted.  I thought you realized that.”

 

“What do you mean?” I asked, frantically.  I thought the formula had somehow eluded me and I would never know for sure.  Maybe he was keeping it a secret. 

 

“You’re the best writer in the group.  Why aren’t you already publishing material?” he asked.

 

I told him I didn’t know the real secret. 

 

He laughed.

 

“You already have it, my friend.  Don’t you see?  There is no secret.  The secret is just writing.  No one can tell you you’re wrong.  It’s a matter of style, art, and good linguistics.  That’s it.  Go for it.”

 

If he was right, I wondered why certain editors in the publishing business simply ignored my writing.  If I was as good as all that, why did publishers ignore me? 

 

The answer came soon after going to China.  I found in America, if you don’t have a journalism degree or an English degree from a reputable university, you lose.  Your writing is junk in the mind of an editor from the minute he sees your lack of writing credentials. 

 

In China, on the other hand, my writing found many outlets in magazines that needed material from good writers, regardless of degrees.  My confidence soared.

 

Of course, I did, in fact, graduate from broadcasting school where I was taught to write proficient journalism for the spoken word, which is quite a bit different than the printed word.  The distinction had always knocked me out of the contention of getting my works published.  Also, as a graduate from the University of North Texas with a BBA in Marketing, my writing took on an advertising edge.

 

Now, I realize the real solution:  It’s not a secret formula for writing, it’s writing something that’s needed and doing it with style and the required research for getting your facts straight.  In other words, find the truth and say in an interesting way. 

 

The reason most editors shy away from the non-journalism majors and the unknown authors is the fear of incorrect information through poor research.  Libel suits in America are dime a dozen.  No editor wants to be responsible for losing the magazine because of a multi-million dollar lawsuit, all because he chose an article from an unknown author.

 

So, what’s the secret of good writing?  Just write.  But, make sure you do the research, first.  Then, get it in the face of a bunch of editors.  Once you do, be prepared to be a writer with deadlines to meet.  Uh-oh, but that’s another problem for another article.  –T-