The Future

When you think about how the future will turn out, you probably think about hovering cars and things like teleportation. Although stuff like this might exist in the future, I believe that you should think about subjects that are more important when thinking about the future. You. Think about topics such as your career, your health, your residence, your family and so on. Then you should think about subjects on a broader view such as the future of the environment, advances in technology and medicine and the future of the world and governments. Although you may not be able to change these things, but they will have an impact on your life and if enough of us get together maybe we can have some impact on them as well. Lastly, you may think about positive changes in the world. On how our technology will advance or how our medicine will move forward. You may also think about negative things such as global warming, weapons of mass destruction and epidemics. You can see that the future gives you both challenges and opportunities. It is up to you and up to all of us how we leverage our tools to come up with solutions and control our future.

The whole point of school is to prepare you for the future. Every second you spend learning, prepares you for the future challenges. Most kids probably don’t realise this, but it’s true. The first eight or nine years of your life, may not seem to be that critical in terms of your future but when you think about it you would appreciate their importance. During these years we get exposed to many subjects from mathematics to geography, from LA to music. These years we have the best ability to learn and start thinking about which subjects we love most. This helps us to focus more on specific subjects which we want to learn when we go to the high school. The high school then helps us to start thinking about the university and our career. So you can see how the whole thing links up to our future – from the first grade all the way up to the university. If we do not take these years seriously, we are not building our future and we are losing the chance of controlling it.

In the future, current problems we have today will most likely grow into catastrophes. For example, global warming might slowly get worse. Today’s society really doesn’t care that much but they don’t realise that this will affect their children and grand-children. Right now you may think that global warming is the only problem that goes into that category, but no. Sicknesses are another. It started with the SARS sickness, then West Nile and then it moved on to Swine Flu. These sicknesses are going to continue to grow, and to get worse. The only problem with this happening is that we almost have no control over it. For example, the West Nile Virus was given to us by mosquitoes. We can’t just kill every mosquito in the world. It would completely ruin the food chain. However, maybe we can fight it another ways – by developing vaccines and by educating people. Basically what I am trying to say is that although we are unable to stop problems in the world, we may be able to prevent some by hard work, by trying and not giving up, by inventing and by teaching.

The future will not hold only negative aspects, but it will hold some positive ones too. Think about technology and medicine. The progress that we have made in these areas has helped us to live linger, safer and with better life style than our grand-parents did fifty year ago. These positive advances have given us the tools to fight the negative problems that our generation is facing. The interesting thing about this is that we have discovered more and invented more in the past ten years, than the thirty years before that. Think about what we can achieve in 50 years from now.

In summary, we have three things to deal with. The unknown future that is going to be full of challenges, the unknown future that is going to be full of opportunities and us at the present time with the certainty and the ability to learn, work hard, discover, invent and teach to achieve more control over our destiny and together over the destiny of mankind. The secret is always going to be how do we use our tools to solve our problems and how do we leverage our future opportunities to face our challenges. The only way that I can think of is to prepare ourselves for it.