The Power of Unanswerable Questions in Shaping the Future

By Futurist Thomas Frey

For centuries, humanity has been propelled forward not just by the answers we’ve uncovered, but by the questions we dared to ask. Some of those questions seemed unthinkable at the time: Can we fly? Can we split the atom? Can machines think? Each one opened a door to a reality that was once unimaginable. And yet, lurking beyond the questions we’ve answered lies a far more provocative realm—the unanswerable ones.

Over the past two decades, I’ve dedicated a significant part of my work to exploring what I call unanswerable questions. These aren’t simply puzzles waiting for a clever scientist to crack or problems requiring more data. They are the questions that probe the limits of human understanding, stretching across science, philosophy, technology, and even the meaning of existence itself.

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Top 10 mind-boggling paradoxes

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Fletcher’s paradox

A statement or problem that either appears to produce two entirely contradictory (yet possible) outcomes, or provides proof for something that goes against what we intuitively expect is called a paradox. Paradoxes have been a central part of philosophical thinking for centuries, and are always ready to challenge our interpretation of otherwise simple situations, turning what we might think to be true on its head and presenting us with provably plausible situations that are in fact just as provably impossible. Confused? You should be.

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Optimizing Evil

Would the world be a better place if Adolph Hitler never existed?

While many people will argue over who exactly was the worst of the worst, with names like Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Idi Amin, Ivan the Terrible, Genghis Khan, Nero, Osama bin Laden, Attila the Hun, and Hirohito entering the conversation, it’s easy to attribute a face to the evil we all despise.

 

 

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