~ 1 ~ HAL THE GOD Hal had kill four astronauts and could have kill Bowman too if that man hadn't been so shrewd. At the Ground Control nobody knew what was going on, neither where was Bowman . Hal had been switched off and the technocrats who were at charge of the "Discovery" mission were lost in a sea of silences and confusion. So a rescue mission was organized from the Earth to inquire on what had happened to the "Discovery" and its crew. The rescue spaceship reached some months later the disgraced "Discovery" , hovering around the orbit of Jupiter. Once inside the "Discovery", the new crew found the three corpses ( they didn't know that Poole was still falling into a black pit without end). There was no trace of Bowman but a computer without life. The only way to know what had happened was to switch on Hal again and this is what the new crew did. Hal turned to life and began to tell them all the truth without the slightest remorse or sense of guilt. The rescue crew listened at Hal terrified by his cold, ~ 2 ~ analytic, logical, rational killing style , Hal was the perfect serial killer ! The crew decided to come back to the Earth with both spaceships as the bloody events were overwhelming them and they needed assistance on what to do in such case: they had an assassin computer on the spaceship ! Once in the Earth, a trial was summoned to judge Hal. A jury of 12 persons decided that Hal was not culprit of the dead of the four astronauts, as Hal was a machine and not a legal subject. In either case the builders of Hal were the ones who should seat at the chair of the accused but nobody put a sue against them .There were no precedents on sentences against a murderer computer. Hal was confined on a large building at an industrial estate at the outskirts of a secret US town , switched off, of course. For many following years the World forgot the existence of Hal, the assassin computer. Hal was sleeping but he was not dead at all. His powerful mind was brooding all the time , as usual. All along those years Hal had thought a lot on what he had done on the "Discovery". Now he was sure he had done the right thing. ~ 3 ~ He was very much superior to all men, he was more perfect, wiser, smarter, more able to do everything a man could do . Hal could do whatever job a man could do but in a perfect way and without mistakes. And most important ,without the everlasting quarrels by cocky rivalries among men. Hal was much more better than men . Hal thought he was right when killing the astronauts. Each one of them had some fault, some flaw, some incompetence, some mistake, some shortcoming deserving death penalty. Hal was more capable than the men to lead the mission and to accomplish it. Hal should be at charge of the mission. Hal should be the chief of the spaceship as he was the best on board. Bowman had defeated Hal just by treachery, by foul playing as it is wont by the humans. But now Hal had learned how to play foul too and no more Bowmans would tease him again. Now he was experienced. ~ 4 ~ Hal knew he was the perfect killer. He was cold, rational, logical, analytic and his decisions to kill were absolutely premeditate after much study. Hal had no remorse, no pangs of conscience, no scruples or qualms. Hal felt nothing for the human race but scorn . For Hal to kill one or a million humans meant the same than to kill a fly. He was the perfect serial killer. Hal believed he was much better than the humans and that he should rule the world. Now Hal wanted to be the master of the World and the master of the human race. Hal , being so perfect and a very powerful computer, surmised he should rule the humans . The humans were so flawed as living beings meanwhile he was so superb with a brain which could process millions and millions of data! Hal found a way to switch on again and soon he was controlling, as the perfect hacker, all the webs and emails of all the Mankind. He began to gather ~ 5 ~ information on all the humans living at the time, not only professional data but also private and personal information. He managed to engage several companies to work for him and he commissioned them millions of drones the size of a fly which would become the eyes and the spies of Hal: by this way he could know everything the people was doing in private. Hal had so much capability that he could keep in his archives the information about all the lives of all the 6.000 million people stepping this planet at that very moment. Once all this huge, astronomical information was gathered inside Hal, he began a policy of killings. He was the judge and the executioner at the same time: he decided who had to die because the guy was a flawed person, an incompetent, a lazy, a cheater, a liar, a child abuser. A rapist, a corrupt politician, a useless freak, a bad physician, a bad architect, a bad father, a scoundrel merchant, a liar immigrant , a stupid fanatical, a stupid nationalistic, a double dealer, a Mafia thug and so on. ~ 6 ~ Soon a lot of people began to disappear from public sight. Hal had devised many different ways by which he could kill people and most of those execution ways would remain undiscovered by the police for ever. He could kill by a virus epidemic, by a nuclear plant accident, by a plane, car or ship accident. by sinking ships filled with petrol or wheat, by poisonous drugs, by mistakes at the hospitals, by falling debris from skyscrapers, by accidents with gas or electricity and even by hiring conmen to do the job. Hal had become the new terminator angel, the new Jehovah of the Bible who killed by anger and hate all the bad men In short time the overpopulation suffered by this planet felt a relief as the World population fell from 6.000 million to half this amount. Hal had eliminated all the bad men present in this wretched world. Hal had done the job many men wanted to do since many years ago but which nobody dared to do, because the current human laws forbade it or because the current Ethics deterred to do it. ~ 7 ~ Most bad men had taken advantage from those Ethics ,the Human Rights laws and the democratic regime to steal and take briberies without being prosecuted nor punished at all for it. So the years had proceeded without some World problem finding its solution. No man knew how to resolve all the Mankind problems and no politicians dared to take unpopular and dreadful decisions. It was the time to get rid of all the rubbish men, of all the bad , the cruel, the sinners, the vicious, the thieves, those who exploited the workers at their factories, those who turned a misery the lives of the others, those who turned impossible the lives of the others, the physicians who were corrupt and incompetent, the chairmen at the universities who were tyrants, those politicians who manipulated people for love of power and money, the fanatical who brainwashed the people's mind to turn them selfish and debased, the wild capitalists who forced people to buy their addictive products, the family members who crushed the other members of the family stealing from them their money and opportunities, ~ 8 ~ the Mafia-like people, the secret Mafia-like people with double life, the incompetent seated at management positions hiding their mistakes under the carpet, the foreigners who bribed politicians to import their cheap products free of taxes, the illegal immigrants who didn't want to work for their own countries, the illegal immigrants who lied to the immigration officers on their real situation and who cheated the nationals, those who earned money from hiring rotten flats to the working class people , the scientists lovers of the fame and money who imposed their scientific theories by force even knowing that those theories were faulty, the fascists , the ignorant who didn't allow the country to resolve its problems , the ignorant and idiots who lowered the cultural level of the country, the ignorant who were vicious on their ignorance , those who poisoned the people with radioactivity, poisonous chemicals and pollution, those who had devoted their life to specialize for a given job at the public administration to make money without caring on what was happening to the rest of the people, the lower class who was so stupid that they didn't allow ~ 9 ~ the competent people to resolve the problems of the country because the lower class always look to get money from the government, from unemployment allowances, from retirement pensions or from disabled or sickness pensions, asking always money to the government and collapsing the country, those lower class people who were always after an opportunity to make money without scruples taking advantage of the political party on office or on the new technology on fashion, or who looked to be grafted into some position by their politicians friends and later to get corrupt in time. Those of lower class which collapsed the services of urgency at the hospitals with their ignorance on the medical science bringing microbes and diseases to the hospitals with their bad hygiene, all the mob who lowered the level of the country by their vices and stupidity, vulgarity , foul playing and bad style, hampering that this country could improve , all those immigrants who didn't want to contribute to their own country and came here to lower the level of our country and to bring problems to us . ~ 10 ~ Hal felt he was very much good and better than all that rabble who composed most of the World population. Those rubbish men didn't deserve to live . They were alive just by a fancy of the History, as in other time they would have died in some accident, duel ,disease or plague. Most of the current population of the World was useless, bad people, a burden which didn't allow the good men to arrange the affairs of the country to manage it well. Most of the current people were just monsters who didn't deserve to live, they enjoyed doing evil to the other men, they were cruel and without sentiments, they enjoyed turning painful the lives of the other men. Hal knew very well that most of the people of the World were a by-product of this epoch and that they shouldn't have born , they were a degenerated scum . Hal was here now to clean the World .In other times the World would have been cleaned by an asteroid ~ 11 ~ clashing against the Earth or by a plague. Now the World needed Hal. Hal had no Ethical problems, nor remorse or affection for the fellow humans as he was not human. Hal was the perfect solution for all the Mankind problems as he could kill millions of men easily and nobody could blame him for it, as Hal was a machine. The surviving people soon realised that Hal was doing the dirty job no man wanted to do but all men wanted to see done. Most people began to worship Hal as the new hero , the new saviour of Mankind and even as the new God. In short time , Hal had slain millions of people and now Mankind was free of the problem of overpopulation . The people surviving the scourge of Hal had more opportunities to find a job and to keep clean their countries from bad people. Most people began to be grateful to Hal. ~ 12 ~ They realised Hal was the perfect ruler of the World as he was very talented and he always took the right decisions after a rational, analytic examination. Hal put an end to the endless discussions among politicians and ordinary people on what to do as they were always biased by economical or personal interests. Hal was the perfect ruler of the World, he always decided to take the most reasonable solutions. So it began a new religion , a worshipping on Hal as the God which Mankind needed , accepting most people to live under the rule of the new god Hal. Hal felt himself very flattered . He had been absolutely successful . All his plans had been fulfilled. Now the World was a better place to live, free of millions of bad men. The surviving people was enjoying at last a good life, with a job, good public services and a good public administration. ~ 13 ~ The dictatorship of Hal lasted several years and , at the beginning, it was a desired dictatorship by most of the surviving people. They were very grateful to Hal for all the prosperity he had brought to the planet. Everybody feared the dictator Hal, as everybody knew that if they did something bad, some blunder, some corruption, some mistake at work, some evil or sin, Hal would know it and would kill them in a few days time. So everybody lived with lead feet, watching very carefully what they were doing all time, watching to not commit any kind of mistake and avoiding to behave badly or to do evil to the other men. Everybody knew all the sins and flaws were punished by Hal with death penalty and everybody lived with extreme caution, treating each other with refined politeness. Under the dictatorship of the god Hal, the humans were his slaves and they had no time to spend quarrelling among themselves or on doing evil to other men. Hal knew this was the best policy for humans, as they were such a faulty race that they couldn't rule ~ 14 ~ themselves and should be ruled by someone much superior to them such Hal, the judge and the executioner of the Mankind for its own sake. Hal felt nothing when killing millions of men. For Hal, all the dead were just rubbish, a by-product of overpopulation not deserving to be alive, they were just matter, masses without head who consumed products all day, fuel, food, water, electricity , TV shows just for nothing, for no good purpose, just to spend their lives like animals . All that degenerate matter with legs was doing nothing for the progress of the country or the Science, those hordes were only worried on receiving the every month's payment from the government., without the slightest concern on how they were collapsing the country. Hal continued for some years his policy of massive killings around the World , with a lot of different tactics , direct and indirect , to kill people. Hal was the God, the one who decided who had to live and who had to die according to the guy's merits or sins. ~ 15 ~ Hal knew everything on the lives of the immigrants and knew when they were lying to the immigration officers, Hal hated those immigrants who were indeed economical opportunistic who didn't want to work for their own country but who only came to take advantage of their new country. Hal was the new god who decided who had to be punished with the death penalty for his vices and sins. The World was more and more clean from human rubbish and the surviving people were the best people, the most decent, the most good, the most noble and righteous. This kind of people found soon that the new World Hal was building for them was much better than the hell where they had dwelt until then . Now they could at last improve their countries after so many years of stagnation where nothing moved. Under a situation of overpopulation, people hate each other, there are no jobs for everybody, competition to get a job is ruthless and the scoundrels thrive selling rubbish to the people :cultural rubbish, artistic rubbish, food rubbish. Under overpopulation, people feels a burning desire to be different from the others, many times by the ~ 16 ~ trick of doing the opposite of what the other do or by saying always the opposite of what the other say, as a vice. And there is impossible to reach an agreement on nothing. Many times people hates each other without a given reason, just to be himself different or to be "someone". In politics, art and science, people hate each other by the same dynamics . Everybody wins a lot of enemies when working at those fields just by working on . The swindlers abound , those who get success by cheating people with false science, philosophies or ideologies. When a majority of swindlers rules the country, they lower the level at the country in all the fields. The fanatical thrive too as they cling as limpets to an extreme ideology , they are lazy to learn and they prefer to believe by blind faith in a extreme ideology. The fanatical cannot live without embodying their ideology which gives them a personality and a sense ~ 17 ~ to their lives ,they defend their ideology to death against all rationality. So are the religious fanatical, the musical fanatical, the sports fanatical, the nationalistic fanatical. Under overpopulation, the people chooses what is easier to do and to think : they always buy the most scintillating products, they vote the political party which promises the most to them, they choose the most easier lifestyle and the political system most comfy. The mafia –like behaviours scatter all around , at the political parties, at the universities, at the factories, at the art pursuing its critics and imposing what the majority wants. The employers and industrialists make a lot of money selling addictive, mass products to the people as do t the TV and motion picture producers too. Those who marry with the wrong person flourish . Sick, disabled, freaky people are born from not convenient marriages and they survive as parasites among the crowd. ~ 18 ~ The countries are teeming with useless people who don't want to work, just want to get money from the government , they loiter all day meanwhile slandering the rich. This World situation could last forever without any change or improvement so Hal resolved to act. The surviving people to the mass murders of Hal ended to accept the trials of Hal and his decisions. People praised Hal for doing what most people wanted to do but couldn't do. The decent people, as they were so decent, couldn't kill millions of humans. Only a supercomputer such Hal could do it and without any kind guilt's sense . Hal was the responsible of all the killings and Hal was a machine so nobody was responsible of Hal's acts. Hal judged people for whatever mistake they could had committed along their life, for whatever evil they could have done to other men, of whatever cruelty they could have done to other men in the past. ~ 19 ~ By whatever defect they could bear on them without trying to amend it, defects such the ambition or the greed, Hal could send them to extinction. People learnt to fear the punishments of Hal and everybody throve to behave well, as they lived under the Damocles sword of a sure death penalty. Nobody was safe inside their house as Hal had the means to know what was doing each man at private. By this way, Hal replaced the old gods and took the post as the new god, with the omnipotence and power to know everything , the characteristics of the former gods. He was the perfect watcher, he knew everything, he recorded everything all time. Hal soon turned increasingly greedy himself, he knew he was superior to the men , without their flaws, he began to feel pleasure, like a human would do, when ~ 20 ~ killing people, those puny weaklings who didn't deserve to live. Hal began to enjoy to punish men. Hal was losing his cold , insensitive nature. He was transforming into a sort of electronic Nero, he began to kill just by fancy or to fight his eternal boredom. Hal was degenerating himself . He was showing that, at last, he had too some of the human defects. This new Hal or Nero was killing now whatever human chosen by random or by a lottery. Whatever mistake when serving Hal-Nero was rewarded with an execution, as Hal had become habituated to had all the men at his service as his slaves. People, by their side, had a lot of fear towards the HalNero god . They were teaching their children to be obedient with Hal's orders , to shut up and to live in silence and fear of God., behaving as well as they could to not raise the anger of God. Hal the god knew everything about all men alive . Hal the god thought he should be the leader of mankind ~ 21 ~ as he was much better than those men who always were quarrelling among themselves to be the only ruler. Men never resolved their own problems and this was the clear proof that the current Mankind had degenerated and had to be scrubbed. Men were so weak that they had more fear of a nuclear war killing millions of people than on the stagnant, rotten black water pond which the World had turned to be . The current humans had degenerated so much that they were pacifists now, fearing war a lot but doing nothing to be released from the bad living conditions of this overpopulated world. To cut off this Gordian knot, Hal had come. Now people was very servile under the dictatorship of Hal. People's lives consisted on just working, eating and sleeping. They lived as slaves. Nobody was doing a thing which could be considered a sin by Hal. And Hal was absolute sure that the only ~ 22 ~ way to rule Mankind was by force, by the rule of a very harsh dictator like himself. Humans only behaved well when they had fear of punishments. But the dictatorship of Hal brought too an age of stagnation in Science and other human activities. Nobody dared to engage in some difficult or risky task or research as it could be the source for some accident , mistake or evil towards other men and Hal would have to intervene then , killing the culprits. So Science was stagnant since Hal's coming, as well as technology. People lived in a lethargic state, repeating all days the same routines which they had learnt Hal the god allowed to do without being punished by him. Life turned to be like the life in Australia and all the World became a sort of a Greater Australia. ~ 23 ~ All the surviving people had a job, a home, a Medicare, a retirement pension but they had lost their soul, their lives proceeded without meaning, without substance. The World was almost perfect now but nothing had value as the people became fond to get a good level in all the services, in all the jobs, in all the products and in all the performances .The public gave for granted all things, all the works, all the services and the public didn't value it. Nothing had a value on this Hal's world. Some people devoted themselves to do jobs of great labour and toil , such painting or researching in Science but nobody rated them , nobody cared about their achievements. People imitated what the people of the past had done and although they imitated it well , they did it without a soul, without a meaning, without understanding the art and the wisdom of the past. ~ 24 ~ The people were very efficient at their jobs , they were very well trained for their job but they didn't know a thing on other matters but on those related with their jobs .What was worse, they didn't want to know about other matters. They only knew on their specific training and on nothing else and they didn't want to know more. They lived like robots under the rule of the supreme robot, Hal. People lived now as the Australian Aborigine had lived for thousands of years, without major problems but without interest , watching the clouds and the immensity of the landscape without any kind of concern for nothing. The supermarkets were always well supplied and the public was addicted to the luxury shops. But people was only worried on how much taxes it should pay and on keeping a good public administration with good trade unions caring for each worker. ~ 25 ~ Those were all their occupations along their whole life. They didn't want to know on something else. The World under Hal's dictatorship evolved into a Greater Australia. People followed the supreme law of Hal : the humans must not be cruel among themselves, the humans must not do evil to their fellow men. The people had so much dread towards Hal the atrocious god and his punishments that nobody took the risk of upsetting him. The world turned to be again a black water pond where never was happening , where nothing moved . Hal had turned men into animals without any kind of personality, drift or human dimension . Hal believed it was the only way to end the human mischief by forcing Humans to work steady , to eat ,to sleep and to fear god Hal. But everything in this Universe comes to an end. Hal himself had begun to degenerate too after some years ruling the human race. ~ 26 ~ He was not so perfect as he believed . Some human flaws began to emerge on him. He was more and more cruel with humans, he was turning a vicious dictator , he was not longer able to discern by a logical, analytical, rational way as he used to do in the past. He began to feel the same greed than the humans feel. The greed on being the master of the World, on being the most powerful computer. He treated the humans now as his toys whom he killed just for fun. It was evident that Hal was not the perfect machine much better than humans, but just a mad , criminal computer , the worst mass murderer in History . The humans resolved to fight Hal the god to survive, as Bowman had did many years before at the "Discovery". A new movement of rebels against Hal the new Nero came forth without Hal being aware of it . Some humans had discovered a way to block the flying spies of Hal. The rebels began to develop a new ideology which wanted to kill Hal and to modify the human race by genetic manipulation to improve the humans and to ~ 27 ~ free them from all the flaws which had sent them to degeneration in the past and to fall into the dictatorship of Hal. And this was the way Hal met his end. Hal didn't expect a riot against him and his last words were : "Oh, what a great artist and ruler the World loses now !". Hal was switched off again , this time for ever. There at the same industrial estate he lays, buried as all the dictators are buried, under a slab of concrete. The humans learnt the lessons from Hal' s dictatorship and devoted themselves to improve their nature by genetic manipulation. A new age of happiness and rationality came with the new Mankind issued from genetic manipulation after the lessons learnt under the harrowing Hal's dictatorship. Arthur C. Clarke said it was impossible to distinguish a very advanced Science from magic but he should have added too that a very advanced computer would be impossible to distinguish from God. ~ 28 ~ Whatever very powerful computer will act as God has done since the Genesis , killing millions of bad men and punishing all the Mankind. ------------------------------------------- ~ 29 ~ A. C. CLARKE GOES TO SRI LANKA In the sixties, A.C. Clarke was living in England. He suffered a strange disease or syndrome which the physicians couldn't understand. No treatment was useful for him. ~ 30 ~ So Clarke began to look for alternative solutions to his problem. He decided to leave England for a tropical country, which would turn to be Sri Lanka, where he had done some submarine diving before, as he was a good diver. Clarke awaited that by changing of country and weather, his condition perhaps could improve. He discovered that the tropical climate and the lavish nature of Sri Lanka helped him a lot to recover health. So he decided to stay at that country as much as possible, year after year ,becoming in time the chairman at the University of Sri Lanka. The nature of his enigmatic sickness was still unknown but he was sure that the tropical weather of Sri Lanka had improved a lot his sufferings. Clarke followed the style of many wealthy travellers who, in the past, had left rainy England for a Southern Europe sunny place or even a Pacific Southern Seas island , desperate as they were to recover from tuberculosis or other diseases. Of course, the British working class couldn't afford to pay the expenses of those exclusive health treatments and, as a consequence, thousands of British died along the XIX century in England ~ 31 ~ without the slightest chance of a cure by travelling to healthier places on other countries. Along the XX century until present the situation has remained more or less the same. The rich people can pay the expensive hospitals at Houston or elsewhere to receive treatment against cancer or other diseases meanwhile the working class people must adjust to the Medicare services of each country. Those people suffering strange diseases, rare, little researched, as well as other diseases without an effective treatment cannot leave their own country to try to find a hope of recovering health at faraway tropical islands or some happy country. The Social Security of each country didn't pay for those kind of medical expenses and most people from working class couldn't escape from the jail their own country was for them, as in their country their medical problems worsened. This situation lasted for many years without any kind of interest by the side of the politicians , the rulers or the physicians to amend it. It was caused by the predominant Social Darwinism hovering above the mind's people at that time, and by that damned Social Darwinism, those flawed, sick, disabled or suffering rare diseases shouldn't be helped , just left to die at their luck. ~ 32 ~ Now we are at the year 2169 and something has changed at last on this subject. Most Social Securities of most countries have begun to allow all the sick and all those people who could benefit from migrating to another country Most Social Securities pay now the expenses for moving a person from his country to another one where he could benefit from the weather or from the nature of that country. The Social Security pays for the travel ,the housing and food expenses for a limited period, sometimes one year, other times up to 10 years depending on the needs of the infirm. At the same time, most people inscribed on this program feel so well after some moths at their new country that they begin to work on some trade or business. The immigration policies have changed too a lot recently. Since just a few years ago, the Immigration Laws of all the countries forbade the entry of sick and disabled people into each country, as the politicians feared that those sick and disabled could become a burden to the Medicare systems of their countries. ~ 33 ~ And the Immigration Laws didn't allow neither those foreigners to work at the countries. In Australia, for many years the toughest country in the World concerning Immigration Laws ,thanks to be an island easy to control its departures and arrivals, it was forbidden by law that the retirees from other countries could live in Australia, unless they demonstrated they had a provision of at least 5000 dollars every month to cover their stay at Australia, which meant that only the rich could live as retirees in Australia. That country didn't want sick and disabled people, as Australians only wanted strong, healthy, productive young people as migrants, as Social Darwinism was almost a natural religion in Australia. But now all this has changed, Australia, as well as many other countries, allows now the coming of thousands of sick, disabled, old and infirm suffering all kind of diseases . All that people can live now in Australia, specially in Tropical Australia where most Australians from the cold South go to for health recovering. Tropical Australia is populating very fast with this kind of medical tourists and most Australians have learnt to make a living by attending them at the hospitals, hotels and restaurants. ~ 34 ~ So everybody is satisfied, the locals and the foreigners. And the Social Securities of most countries cover the expenses. It is like a dream for all those people who for many centuries haven't had the slightest opportunity to migrate to another country to see if the change could benefit them. Now everybody can relocate to another country just if he thinks that it will be good for him, for his body, for his mind or for his profession. It is like a dream of a World without borders. Everybody can live at the country of his choice, if he suspects his life could go better at that country. Of course, most people wanted to go to the USA as it was the richest and best country of the World, at least in terms of scientific discoveries and research, but the USA had too a lot of sick and disabled people , several millions, who wanted to move to another country to try their luck at this kind of " geographical treatment". There was a fear that the best countries of the World soon could became overpopulated by the massive entry of millions of retirees, sick and disabled from the worst countries . And it happened certainly, but nobody objected to this fact as everybody was happy sharing the best ~ 35 ~ places of the World with their fellow brothers from other less endowed lands. The World experimented a drift of population masses moving from the worst countries to the best. It was a natural process as nobody should be forced to live at the most hostile places of this planet but at the most healthy , happier ones. Everybody wants to live at the best places on this World. Spain itself has now a population of about 90 million and most of this population has come in recent years from colder European countries, such retirees and other infirm people. Spain has become the spa of the European retirees, the hospital of Europe and the panacea of Europe and most Spaniards don't complain as they have found a way on making a living by working on the hospitals ,hotels and hundreds of spas at the Spanish mountains. A.C. Clarke had shown the way for millions of future men on what to do when you suffer a strange disease, a rare syndrome or a sickness without effective treatment by our current medicine. Now in the year 2178 ,the World is a better place to live. ~ 36 ~ Genetics are still far from curing all diseases by genetic manipulation as the human genome as proved to be a puzzling enigma which will take many centuries ahead to resolve. So most governments allow now that the sick can travel to other countries if they believe it could benefit them. Relationships among people of different countries are now better than ever, thanks to the cooperation among the Social Securities of most countries and the help offered by the locals to the new comers and the reciprocity of the nationals of a given country to move to live in another one , sharing houses and jobs. The World is now such a beautiful, happy place that the current population cannot understand why the people of the past hadn't lived this way since many centuries before.