I am nearing my next birthday. It’s in the middle of the next season (winter). My plans include seeing the next 33+ years of life until I reach triple digits. Yes. I’m planning on living until I’m 100. Of course, that means I need to adjust some of my life so that I can last until then! Health. Finances. Focus. Planning. Doing.
I wonder what 2055 will look like? I heard a question someone asked of their students, “How do you see the future?” It gave me pause. I wondered if anyone was interested in answering the same question I heard. What are your thoughts?
On the one hand, can we see the future? Or is it a black hole? On the other hand, do you even care?
Of course, we all understand the world is changing. Keep growing the population, and we’ll destroy every inch of this marvelous place we call home. If pollution goes unchecked, and that’s all kinds of pollution, the destruction will happen more quickly. Extend our ability to live longer, and the self-destruction percentages grow astronomically faster. Why? We are not prepared for the future!
Religions tell of the horrors that are bound to happen, then and there, but not necessarily here and now. What if…what if we are in that future of the prophecies? We may be closer than we imagine!
The Old Testament has prophets that told of dangers right around the corner and generations in the making. The New Testament did the same thing. Nostradamus writings were thought to describe more current times, but also thoughts about the future. Even our own Farmers Almanac foretells the future of climate and production.
As a kid, the Flintstones (1960-66) talked about life in the long-ago time, while the Jetsons (1962-63) painted images about the possibility of future times. In the early ’60s, we were facing life moving at exponential speeds. That decade set the stage for much of our technological present. So, we imagined the past, thought about the future, and now we live where we never thought we’d be.
What is the Future? It’s not always far off, but minute by minute we live current lives with the future just one step ahead.
So… Care to share? How do you see the future?
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