The Real Future

A detailed Summary of The Real Future

Many people thought that they year 2000 would be like we were living in "space." Scientists promised decades ago that we would be vacationing in space, zipping around town with rocket packs and popping "meal pills" by the year 2000. Well, 2000 is here and everything is pretty much like it was. Although, we are progressing in technology, life still looks more like " The Brady Bunch" then " The Jetsons." Is this "promised" future every going to begin, and if not what is our real future going to be like?

After reading the Mc Laughlin Group's predictions for the new millenium. I realized many desirable changes that even in this day and time they do not seem very feasible. For example, disks that go into computers are replacing student and teacher textbooks. This new advance in technology is good in some ways, but can also be harmful in ways. Students will be able to learn at their own pace and not the teachers'. The students will be one on one with their lessons and will not be interrupted by another student asking questions, so therefor the student will probably learn more. On the other hand this will isolate a student, instead of a student being able

Philosopher George Santayana's famous quotation is a warning to the world, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." People need to remember lessons from the twentieth century lest we make the same mistakes again in the new millenium. Some of these lessons people need to remember are things like the Columbine shooting and the Oklahoma bombing. Things like that could have been prevented and can be stopped from happening again. One of the main things that would help to prevent those tragedies from reoccurring is communication. If students would communicate with students, parents would communicate with their children, and co-workers would communicate with co-workers, then almost no one would be singled out. People will also know what is going on inside other peoples' heads.

It has been suggested that the foundations for the future are being laid today. What do present trends in music and video tell people about things to come? What do current political trends tell people about the shape of politics in the future? From what's happening in business, what will tomorrow's work place be like? I think that the present trends in music and video are progressing in the wrong way. Parents allow their young children to listen and watch such vulgar things. Everyone's morals and common since about the music and videos have been lost. Today's political trends are also getting worse. Everyone thinks that the government is just a big

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