- XBLDragon029
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- Intrepid Mythic Member
[As of October 2012]
2013 ADFA Officer Cadet of the RAAF (Aerospace Engineer Electronics Officer).
The ultimate goal for human society is to reach as ideal a society as possible; a proper utopia. The other main goal is to expand and become a Type III civilisation, controlling our own fate.
As for what is the purpose of *life*, then realistically, there is none - species typically are driven to survive, pass on their genes, etc, but that's only as a means of species self-preservation. Why should we live? To experience? To act?
Either way, the question is one which is irrelevant to life. We don't need to have a universal purpose, or a meaning. We only require principles on which we can set our personal and societal goals.
As for the end of the road for technology, there theoretically probably is one, but we are absolutely no where even remotely a fraction of the way there. Our most advanced facilities struggle to deal with quantum mechanics. We understand the general gist of it, but we can't even produce a proper quantum computer yet. An end-of-the-road civilisation would have the ability to make an impact on the universe itself.