How many buttons do we need to press in order for us to live these days? How many screens do we need to stare at in order to feel entertained? Some believe the future is more buttons to press and even more screens to stare at. Only slimmer, of course. I believe the future is the beginning. Not ‘like’ the beginning. The beginning.
Of course we like the iPod and the iPad and the iPhone and other i’s, but I think at some point in the future – given that 2012 is yet another boring end of the world when nothing’s going to happen – we’ll get tired of being useless creatures with idle brains, so we’ll gradually give up all the high-tech and go back to basics. That is not to say that self-destruction isn’t fun. I mean seriously, having a robot that can do the chores for you doesn’t sound bad at all, does it?
But what if the future is our own history? What if all we do is head towards our past – no round flying things, no inhabited Moon, no Internet. Just the beginning.
Don’t get all ‘wtf’ on me now. Just remember that a few centuries ago the great minds posited that the world was flat. Not heart-shaped, but flat, for God’s sake!!! And they thought they’d fall off it once they’ve reached the edge. So it is not impossible that our future be our beginning.
Nothing is impossible. Impossible is nothing.
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