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Ukuhlola umkhathi kunesihloko esixoxwa ngaso njalo kwabezindaba. Kusukela kumidlalo yethelevishini kuya kumamuvi, siyibona yonke indawo. The Big Bang Theory omunye wabalingiswa babo, u-Howard Wolowitz, wahamba waya emkhathini. I-Star Trek, I Dream of Jeannie, Star Wars, Gravity, okwakamuva Yokuqala Galaxy futhi abaningi abengeziwe baye bahlola umqondo wokuthi yini okufanele futhi ingalindelwe emkhathini. Abaqondisi bama-movie nababhali bahlale befuna into enkulu elandelayo. Lawa mafilimu nemibhalo iwumfanekiso wokuthakasela kwethu amasiko ngendawo. Phela isikhala asaziwa kakhulu kithi.

Ababhali nabaqondisi basebenzisa isikhala ukuze babonise ubuciko babo. Kuzokwenzekani esikhathini esizayo? Ingabe lesi sikhala esibukeka kanjani ngempela? Kuzokwenzekani uma singaphila emkhathini?

Buyela emuva ku-1999. I-Zenon: Intombazane yekhulu lama-21, ifilimu yoqobo ye-Disney Channel, ibonise izethameli umhlaba lapho abantu behlala khona emkhathini, kodwa uMhlaba wawusekhona. Babenamabhasi ahambayo ayebasusa ezindlini zabo ezehlela eMhlabeni. Amafilimu anjenge I-Zenon futhi Gravity kungenza abantu abathile babe manqikanqika ngokuya emkhathini. Kodwa angikholwa ukuthi kuzodala ukulahlekelwa ekuthandeni ukuhlola indawo.

Amamuvi nezinhlelo zethelevishini zisebenza njengenkundla yalokho okungenzeka esikhathini esizayo, noma lokho abaqondisi nababhali abangakholelwa ukuthi kuzokwenzeka esikhathini esizayo. Ababhali nabaqondisi baletha izimo zangempela emsebenzini wabo. Phela besihlale sitshelwa ukuthi zonke izindaba zineqiniso. Nokho, ukusungula kuba ukhiye. Lapho ababhali nabaqondisi beza nezindaba eziningi ezihilela ukuhamba emkhathini, kuba nethonya elikhudlwana lokwenza ucwaningo olwengeziwe ngendawo. Ucwaningo olukhulu lungaholela emathubeni amaningi.

Kuthiwani uma uhulumeni ubevele esebenza ngendlela yokuthi abantu bahlale emkhathini? Ngokusho kukaJonathan O'Callaghan we I-Daily Mail, “ama-asteroid amakhulu ahlasela i-Mars esikhathini esidlule, [okungenzeka] adale [ed] izimo lapho ukuphila kungasinda khona”. Uma uhlobo oluthile lokuphila lungatholakala ku-Mars, kungani-ke kungatholakali amanye amaplanethi? Kuthiwani uma ososayensi beqhamuka nekhambi elingasiza ekudaleni izimo zokuphila phezulu emkhathini? Uma wonke umuntu ezofuna ukuthutha, maduze sizodinga ukugada kwethrafikhi phezulu lapho.

Kunomqondo wenganekwane yokuklama lapho “imisebenzi eqanjiwe [igunyazwa] izinkampani zobuchwepheshe ukuze zifanekisele imibono emisha,” kubhala u-Eileen Gunn ethi I-Smithsonian Magazine. Umbhali wezincwadi u-Cory Doctorow uyawuthanda lo mbono wenganekwane yokuklama noma inganekwane ye-prototyping. "Akukho okuxakayo ngenkampani eyenza lokhu - ukuthumela indaba ngabantu abasebenzisa ubuchwepheshe ukuze banqume ukuthi kufanelekile yini ukuqhubeka," kusho uDoctorow. Smithsonian. Lokhu kuholela enkolelweni yami yokuthi amamuvi namanoveli amayelana nokuhamba emkhathini azosiza asiqhubele ekusungulweni okusha kwesikhala; lapho simba ngokwengeziwe ulwazi olwengeziwe lukhishwa. 

Izinganekwane zesayensi zingasiza ukuthuthukisa isayensi yesikhathi esizayo. Njengoba ababhali nabaqondisi benza izinto ezintsha nemibono abakholelwa ukuthi kungenzeka esikhathini esizayo esiseduze, umphakathi ungase ufune ukukwenza kube ngokoqobo. Ngakho-ke, abantu abangochwepheshe bazolwela ukuguqula izinganekwane zibe iqiniso. Lokhu kungasho izinto ezinhle zesikhathi esizayo kuphela. Nokho, kungase futhi kuthathe ithuba elibi. Uma ikusasa lithuthuka ngokushesha kunokuba likulungele, khona-ke izinto eziningi ezimbi esizibonile ezinganekwaneni zesayensi zingase zibe yiqiniso.  

Umhlaba uyakhula; sidinga ukuthuthuka ngesivinini esifanele. Inganekwane yesayensi ingasiza ukuhambisa ucwaningo nokuhlola isayensi yesikhathi esizayo. Izinganekwane zingabangela le mibono “ecatshangelwayo” esifunda ngayo ukuthi ibe ngokoqobo. UChristopher J. Ferguson, owayeyi-NASA Astronaut, uthi Ukutholwa, “Ngicabanga ukuthi ababhali bezinganekwane zesayensi abavele baziqambe lezi zinto. Okuningi kusekelwe kwisayensi nalapho bebona isayensi iphokophele khona ngelinye ilanga.” Uhlobo lwemibhalo lungase lungabonakali njengendawo yokubikezela ikusasa, kodwa lusiza ekwakheni imibono yalokho esingakwenza ngokulandelayo. Ikakhulukazi kulokho okungadalwa. Ngosizo lwamaqiniso angempela kanye nomcabango womuntu ngamunye, izinto eziningi ebesiziphuphile zingafezeka.

Ukuhlola isikhala ngeke kulahlekelwe intshisekelo nganoma yisiphi isikhathi maduzane. Kuseyisiqalo nje.