The future

The future is an unknown mystery that not even the most respected scientists can predict. Of course they can say I think it will be like this or I think it will be like that, but they can never know for sure. In 1943 Tomas Watson said something like ”I think there is a world-market for about five computer” and later in 1957 the responsible publisher at Prentice Hall said something like “I’ve travelled across the country and talked to the most experienced people, and I can assure you that computers are a trend that will last for at most a year”. Look at how wrong they were! Everything or almost everything has some sort of computer component. If you don’t have one of your own you are considered a little bit of a freak, at least if your younger than 60+. Internet is a medium we can’t live without today. You can find everything from books and scientific dissertations to communities and everything in between. And with the thought of how wrong Watson and the publisher was I think it’s impossible to predict the future, but you can always speculate. Everyone should agree that if we don’t get control over our pollution and use of fossil fuel our children will have it so much harder to get the earth in balance and get a place were all mankind can live. But apart from that it’s difficult to say what’s going to happen. I think that the computers are going to have an even bigger part in our communities in the future. I think that the transportations are going to be driven by electricity and maybe they won’t have wheel but have air-openings that blow air against the ground and hinders it from cashing. Maybe the cities will be flying in the sky or maybe we will live underground or maybe both. One thing is clear, the change the nearest hundred years will probably be as big as the one that the last hundred years and some of them you can predict but most of them are impossible to even guess, there are to many choices for mankind to make. Hopefully we will make most of them to the better so that the next generations don’t have too many mistakes to repair.

Text by: Sara Lundqvist
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