Fundamentally Future Friendly

I don’t know what the future holds but I know who holds the future. Days go by and how time flies, seasons always changing. When we contemplate the future we envision mind-warping technology and global warming destroying the Earth. Change is inevitable but it’s up to our supremacy what we and our planet Earth change into. Will we help or hinder our future survival? One sentence from America’s Declaration of Independence has some relevance to this matter. “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”. In other words if something is wrong, those that have the ability to take action, have the responsibility to take action.

Technology! Yes, it has its positives, but like all other things is also has its negatives. Would we really need hover cars? They would still congest �air space’. What would be the benefits of splitting the atom more that once (What was the point of splitting it anyway)? Or will �Little Boy’ the World War Two atomic bomb containing Uranium be resurrected from the Japanese city of Hiroshima and be upgraded to wipe out the brain stems of individuals whose unique brain patterns have been programmed into the device? For years technology has been cultivated. Powerful and ingenious it maybe, but in our hands this technology has been used for demoralizing war! If we carry on using these technological advancements for the use of hostilities on Earth (or maybe in space) then both parties will use their own weapons and both will be crushed; ground into tiny pieces and blasted into oblivion. As the saying goes �Those that rule by the blade, will fall by the blade’. If we explored every possibility of the future we would have already gone through fifty generations before being a quarter of the way there and even then we would have lived through that future.

Even in our film industry we have movies and T.V. shows that use the thought of the future. For instance, the 1960 film �The Time Machine’ written by H.G. Wells, let one man from 1899AD, pass through a changing world. Here today, gone to tomorrow. A time machine was invented that whisks him away from his own time to war-ravaged moments of the twentieth century (and a real future war for the ’60s with atomic satellites) and eventually into the year 802701AD, where the Morlocks, a race of glow-eyed subterranean monsters have the Eloi, the future humans, as their prey. Some more familiar shows include Doctor Who, Planet of the Apes, Meet the Robinsons and Minority Report. It is fascinating how our ideas from the seven percent usage of our brains have revolutionised the way we now live. The creation of the personal computer has now gone from custom made processors into home use and film companies such as I.L.M (Industrial Light and Magic). This company was set up in 1975 by George Lucas creator of Star Wars™. They were designed for special effects. Now thirty-two years on they can create almost lifelike beings on the computer using a method called CGI (Computer Generated Imaging). The hits such as Star Wars; Doctor Who, Shrek; The Mummy Duo; The Matrix Trilogy and hundreds more are the new kinds of films. Out of this world, cutting edge technology once again has proved itself to be helpful. Some people think that these methods are just as incompetent as the effects used in the 1970’ series �Randall and Hopkirk Deceased’. They used trimming of the film to give the effect that a ghost could transport itself to another location or even over lapping a cut out of each frame of the ghost on to another set of frames.

It wouldn’t be just our social lives that would be affected; if our political status doesn’t change for the good of mankind then it the democracy we know could come to a cataclysmic conclusion. Maybe the democracy we have been serving no longer exists and we are the very malevolence we’ve