The future

No one can know what's going to happen in the future, because anything can happen! Even if I would've written about something that's very unrealistic and probably has the smallest chance to occur no one can say that it's not going to happen and be 100% sure about it. Practically I can write whatever I want to and no one can say that it's not within this subject, the future.

As you probably understand this article is very little based on facts, it's all my own imagination and thoughts, but maybe influenced by things I've read or heard before.
It's obvious, the further into the future we get, the bigger technology grows. I believe that eternal life, intelligent robots, flying cars, aliens etc. isn't impossible for mankind to invent or discover. In one way or another we probably will get there in a distant future, or maybe just in some years. If we travel back to the 15th century, who could then ever imagine that the world would look like it does today? If someone back then said that we would be able to travel to the moon, he or she would then probably have been known as insane, but it happened! That means that anything can be a reality in the future.

I'm not sure if this evolution is the best for us. All these things also come with a great responsibility and some of them can be dangerous. Think if eternal life would be a reality tomorrow. If everybody would get it and we wouldn't stop propagate us, earth would be overpopulated very fast. If not everyone would get the opportunity, who would? The richest
and the most powerful persons? That would directly start a riot. But then also the biggest question, who wants an eternal life? I've recently read “Gulliver's Travels” by Jonathan Swift, where Gulliver one time meets persons with eternal lives. The only thing they want is to die. For them eternal life isn't a blessing, it's more like a curse. They can't remember anything at all because they all get senile when they reach a high age and they all look disgusting by the description of Gulliver. Their skin is full of wrinkles and they can't hardly move. Maybe nowadays and in the future we could get plastic operations, better medical treatment and have organ transplantations, but still just the idea of living forever wouldn't please me.

We will never stop evolving as long as we live, that's for sure. I don't think that the environment will be a big problem in the future as media and other sources tell us today. At some point we will invent something that stops the pollutions and maybe will get the environment better than it is today. The biggest problem in my imagined future, will be mankind's never ending evolution. At some point everything will crash. Maybe like in many science fiction movies when robots, that we will create sooner or later (Japan is already in an early stage), will exterminate us eventually.
At some parts in the article I think it sounds very ridiculous and impossible that some things will occur. When I think about how a person from the 15th century, without any doubts, must have felt the exact same way, I still think it's possible.
I feel that the best way of ending this article is by saying the same as I started with: In the future – anything can happen.

 


Text by: Emil Ahlqvist
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