Will it be a future of progress? Well it depends upon us I guess...

When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. In the most minimal sense, the future is simply the set of all moments yet to come. But what makes the future distinctive and important isn’t that it hasn’t happened yet, but rather that it will be a time when the world looks different from today.

In this sense, if nothing about our society changes for next 100 years, then the future is over 100 years away. If things change radically in the next decade, then the future is nearly at hand. No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: it's going to be different, and it must be rooted in today's world.

The progress that we all need is the sort of progress that can take one of two forms. Horizontal progress means following and continuing with what we already do and what we have been doing before. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical progress means doing something that hasn’t happened or been done before, it simply means doing new things. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done. So, Vertical progress is something which is difficult to imagine, especially for those who resist change.

Example distinguishing Horizontal and Vertical progress - If you take one typewriter and build 100 of it, you have made horizontal progress, but if you have a typewriter and then build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.

This theory applies to all the areas of progress whether it is in business or in any other field or condition, like in the current situation also - there will be no survival of the fittest but survival of the one who will not resist progressive change and those who approach the progress in Vertical ways as per the changing society.

~~Inspired by Peter Theil’s Theory🍁