have you ever wondered what the world would look like in 50/100 years from now?
well there are actually a group of people who likes to do that, they called 'Futurist'. make no mistake no one of them actually know anything what would happen in the future, it's all just prediction. but i really like them although they are a mixed group of people, the kind that pessimistic and the kind that optimistic about the future
the pessimist would say the world would consume itself with conflict and war, the fight for the oil, the fight for the clean diamond or even the fight for what they believe in. in the other hand the optimist would say the world of IT would improve beyond believe, we would have computer at the size of sheet of a paper and the medicine world would prevent people for getting old, and don't forget in the field of sub-atomic physics. Teleportation might be a real thing!
one of the futurist i adore is Dr. Michio Kaku, a physicist in NYU that have his hand on string field theory, i recommend you watch on of his talks :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtW6o9i1yWY
he is the optimist one, thats why i like him. according to him and i guess general consensus, technology and science develop at exponential model, he said in 1990 there are a group of scientist with intent to map human genome, by the year 7 they only completed 10%, but 3 years after the rest 70% is done. also do you know that the world data condition is? during this last 5 years we have made 80% of world data exist today, it means from human become exist until now, we made 80% of the data in the last 5 years. who knows what we would make in the next 5?
Dr. Michio shows one side of the coin, one side when people of the world forget all their differences and work together to fix earth and improve the well being of human kind. in this utopia we would be a 'level 1 civilization' a civilization which works together to manipulate and use resource in one planet. to move to level 2 we need to be able to harness energy from a star, and i think thats waay beyond us right now.
how about the other side? the side when all hope is lost, human become more greedy and apathetic? only thinking whats good for themselves and their own kind? the kind of people who slow down human development by going on and on about what they prefer for themselves. the kind of people who will start a war for their own benefit without even thinking about the implication that will be felt by anyone else but them and their kind? let me tell you there are a lot of people in this side of the coin. why they behave in such a way? mostly because they don't believe about future they won't invest in it, why would they care if the ice cap melting in north pole? whats in it for them if insect and amphibian species get extinct at an alarming state? why talk about peace and long lasting solution if war and conflict bring them untold amount of riches and power in their life? these kind of people usually don't have a very good intellectual background and mostly unhinged to everything that happened beyond his eyesight, and whats more they don't care for that either because it don't impact them directly.
these both side of the coin is real and they are the one that shape our future, unfortunately we ought to pick side. will you be the one that destroy this planet? incite war? or the one that actually invest and believe about the future? 50-100-500 years from now. for those of you who wants to believe that the world would not end i advise for you to read more, watch more and explore more. nothing would make you invest in future if you never knew that it existed in the first place! and after you know that future did exist, start investing in it! do your part to build a better future, whether creating something new, upgrading whats already exist, cleaning up mistakes that made by our elder or even teach yourselves on future technology.
more than that after you fill your skill and head with whats futuristic, you should prepare the future mentally and what is that exactly? tolerance, open mindedness, logical and critical thinking are the keys for you to evolve, by not having all of them i bet it would be difficult for you to accept new ideas and open up new horizon.
oh and the last one, please decrease your use of plastic bottle and plastic bag, come on.
