1,000 Years into the Future… What Are You Doing?
A highly contemplative post with way more questions than answers.
The other day, I stumbled across the concept of “FOMO,” which stands for fear of missing out. This is a feeling of apprehension that others might be having, or will have, rewarding experiences from which one is absent.
In layman’s terms…
At some point, now or in the future, something amazing will happen and you won’t be there to enjoy it.
It’s an interesting little theory. It got me thinking about the future and all the wonderful discoveries and innovations our time will never know of… I had my own little moment of FOMO.
A Question For You
Imagine you could time travel 1,000 years into the future.
What would you do if you had one day in the year 3018?
If You Ask Me…
Oh, you’re asking me what I would do? Okay. I’ll think about it for a really long time and come back when I have a really good answer for you.
Alright, I know what I would do. It might catch you off guard though.
If I had one day in 3018… I would read a history book.
Yes, a boring, old history book (or the future’s version of one).
Think about it! Wouldn’t that be fascinating? To look back and inspect all the global affairs, advances in technology, and what it says about our time right now?
It would be so interesting to see the general consensus of today’s status — how it describes our culture, the role of media, and the struggles we currently face.
I can only imagine how many questions this would answer:
- Did we finally figure out climate change?
- Is terrorism still a thing?
- How do we use the internet in the future?
- Do we think globally now… or are we still territorial?
- How far has technology advanced? Virtual reality?
- What about cancer? Religion? War(s)?
These are topics I would love to see the answers, solutions, and outcomes for.
What would the people of 3018 think of the people in 2018?
Would we get a bad rep for being too divided? Maybe we’ll be praised as the time of great technological progress.
I wonder if there would be a clear distinction from right and wrong in our behavior… kinda like how we look back on slavery and say “what the hell were we thinking?”
And what will our time period be called?
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I’ve run rampant with questions. I warned you, though. You are more than welcome to answer any of them.
Game Changer.
With the internet being so accessible nowadays, it changes a little bit of everything. Yes, I know you know that.
But…
I don’t think we internalize the massive implications of the World Wide Web in the future.
The internet just happened.
20 years is not that long. Civilization, as we know it, has been around for about 6,000 years (I did the math). For us millennials, the internet’s been here our “entire lives.” But for this giant rock, floating through outer space we’re all stuck on?
It’s nothing.
I think about the trajectory of the internet’s impact; it’s a massive turning point for humanity. We don’t realize it enough because it’s arduous to gauge the significance of something so mainstream and ingrained in our lives.
We’re experiencing a paramount era in history we’ll look back on forever.
The ability to “know more” is so powerful. We are in a time of never ending self-awareness. We’re incredibly cultured, enlightened, and receptive — more than any generation before us.
Eventually, all us “kids” will grow up, move up, and lead our societies.
Pretty exciting stuff.
I know I’m not the first to say it, but we are living in the Information Age. In the grand scheme of things, I believe we’ll look back on our time as the start of a massive change in our global philosophy.
I got a bit side-tracked there. I’d read a history book if I landed 1,000 years into the future.
I’d want to see a world better off.
- AZ
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