The impossible is never impossible

smartphones

everyone here in this room has one and

everyone here most definitely knows

someone who owns one

but has anyone ever really thought about

the concept of a smartphone

this tidy box of plastic and metal

holds the power to connect us to all

corners of the world

it gives us answers to any question we

have

it gives us knowledge it gives us

friendship it gives us power

if we go back a hundred years ago

this technology would have been

considered impossible

witchcraft even as would mo as with most

things we consider to be normal nowadays

like traveling to the other side of hong

kong in a matter of minutes

talking to someone who isn’t physically

there in the room with you

looking at pictures that someone from

the other side of the world took

when you think about it we’ve progressed

so much

in such a short amount of time so much

so that all of these impossible things

are now considered to be the norm

but what if i told you that we will soon

be able to surpass our current progress

what if i told you that what we now

think is impossible

will soon become our reality what if i

told you

that we will be able to communicate with

our brains

i’m sure everyone here has experienced

something like that before

when you were younger where you’re

pretending to have superpowers

with your friends when you’d imagine the

powers you have and what and the kind of

things you do with them

when i was younger i desperately wanted

the ability to read minds

or control things with my brain i

thought that with this power

i’d never have to study for a test ever

again

and i just daydream away thinking of all

sorts of things i could do

i wouldn’t even have to turn on my phone

to listen to music

i could just lie there in bed and simply

think

about what i wanted to do and it would

happen

when i found out about about the newer

link

it was like magic it was like this tiny

flame in my heart

just suddenly burst forward and set

everything ablaze

how all of my childhood dreams and

wishes had just been granted

and the impossible had just

become possible now

you might be wondering what exactly is

the neuralink

well the neural link is a small chip

that can be implanted in your brain

and it’s developed and designed by elon

musk

that allows us to control our devices

with only our brains

the technical side of it makes it sound

less mysterious and magical

than it is where you’re basically

controlling your phone

with the chip using bluetooth but

still it’s a massive step forward into a

technological utopia that so far has

only been found in our dream

now it sounds pretty unfeasible to be

completely honest

as well as something that’s needlessly

expensive

and dangerous nothing more than a pipe

dream

after all it does sound like something

that is

just impossible to achieve and nothing

but

an idea has just been taken from it

but look at all the things that we’ve

already achieved before

and all of these things were once

thought to be impossible as well

things like planes cars and trains

have that have helped us to achieve the

impossible in the past

so who’s to say the neurolink won’t be

our future

as we advance technology advances with

us

it merges with our lives and becomes an

irreplaceable part of our past

our present and our future some people

do worry that

with the advancement of our future

technology would

completely take over our lives that

someday

our creations will be our end and

inevitably

our pride and joy will be our

destruction

but those people forget that technology

has helped us advance

and has helped it helped us reach

further beyond our wildest

dreams and it’s still here with us today

paving the way for a brighter future

technology is everywhere it’s everywhere

around us and it’s now considered to be

the new normal

let’s say you want to take a walk

outside

something rather rare for us to do

nowadays

you start by leaving your home you bring

your phone

you bring your wallets and put it on

your bag etc etc

you open the front door and you take the

elevator downstairs to the ground floor

you then go on your walk maybe listening

to some music

or a podcast and maybe you start to feel

a little hungry

so you just take the bus or a taxi

or just find the nearest convenience

store

and you buy some snacks you walk in

and the doors open and you feel

the cool air rush towards you

you decide to just pick what you want

and because it’s winter

it’s pretty cold you just pay and leave

simple journey right a very

meaningless small simple journey

something that all of us have at one

point

taken and in any point in our lives

certainly won’t look back upon unless

something extraordinary happens

for example um let’s say you see a cat

that’s sitting outside the grocery store

and you feel happy

if not for the cat i bet you wouldn’t

have even remembered this journey that

you’ve taken

but if you think back to the very

beginning

to the very moment you stepped out the

house

to even before that when you stood up

from your chair and decided you wanted

to go

the first thing you did was to pick up

your phone

you ready with interactive technology

technology pieces of machinery and

equipment

developed from the application of

scientific knowledge

we associate the word technology with

science fiction with things like

lightsabers and spaceships and

accessible space

travel but we forget that

the world we are living in right now was

once full of plants

and ocean and wildlife looking around

us especially in a city as busy as hong

kong

we don’t see any of that now we don’t

see any of those remains

and now in the night time

when you look up in the sky instead of

the moon and the stars just twinkling

away

it’s lit up by all the smoke caused from

pollution and all the neon lights from

the buildings

when you fall asleep you hear the cars

just rushing by

all city sounds as people say and

we slowly forget that the world we’re

living on right now

is known as natural state

if you think about it nothing from the

natural world

is now in our lives to think that

this city was once a beautiful forest

with nothing but animals in it it’s just

unreasonable

it’s practically impossible but

this is our reality our reality

is that we’ve built this world with our

two hands

over our entire history our history

is that we’ve practically created a new

world for ourselves

and we’ve achieved the impossible we’ve

practically created a new planet

from this very earth so who’s to say

that

the impossible is just impossible

we’ve achieved so many great things in

the past and we will continue to achieve

many great things in the future

so never let the word impossible

stop you the impossible is always

possible

it’s just a matter of time so

i guess what i’m trying to say is the

impossible is

never impossible