What could the future be like?
I like talking about the future. Let’s start with that.
I think that talking about something that is neither certain nor uncertain gives people less room for judgement.
There are many possibilities for the future, and each of those possibilities aren’t restricted to a certain circumstance or outcome. For instance, the future may not revolve around technological or business developments.
It’s weird to think about something we have no concrete idea of — most of the time, even, I find myself losing a few grams of my sanity in my routine daydreaming session.
One of the more-bizarre discussions I’ve had about the future is with a friend of mine, which we termed the “circle of civilisation”.
You know how in “The Lion King” Mufasa said something along the lines of “when we (lions) die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass, and we all become connected in the great circle of life”?
It’s, in a way, similar to that. Probably 30-ish%. It’s a terrible analogy (pt. 2), but I can’t think of any other ones; I apologise.
In short: what if the future — instead of advancements and complexity — retraces back to simplicity? And once we reach the ultimate ‘base’ of simplicity, we would reignite complexity.
What if such pattern has been going on for centuries or millennia?
What if there was a civilisation thousands of years ago which has reached peak advancement and unknowingly retraced back to simplicity (before we ‘reignite complexity’ through revolutionising technology and economy and such)?
What if modern human civilisation isn’t as advanced as we think it is?
What if we are, instead, far less advanced than prior civilisations?
It sounds insane, I know; but the particular topic keeps on finding its way back to me — and when it does, it makes me want to explode.
We know history, we have a lot of records to back our knowledge; but do we actually?
People in ancient civilisations were far from dumb — what if they had manipulated their own traces in such a detailed and unnoticed way to keep us from their history?
What if they knew that we would bring destruction, and purposely burnt down their knowledge and wisdom?
What if we would end up erasing records of our knowledge and existence in hopes of keeping future civilisations safe?
[Explosion noises]
I have a lot of questions (when do I not?), but only time could tell.
A lot of things sound too insane or too made-up to come true — but a lot of the things (being labelled as such) have found their ways into reality.
For instance: if you told a Victorian child that you could talk to someone halfway across the world through a light-up rectangle the size of her hand, she would faint (and probably call an exorcist on you).
It’s insane — everything’s insane — everything’s just a concept.
We won’t know how the very far future is (I’m talking about 2100 or even 5000, if humankind makes it that far), unless somebody somehow lives to a hundred or a thousand years; but it’s pretty cool to think about something you’ll probably have no answer to.
