Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The Future is Everything

So here's sort of a weird little brainstorm:
We've had lot's and lots of visions of the future. Some of them seem to be coming ever closer to the truth. 1984 anyone? Brave New World? Fahrenheit 451?
But then also, The World of Tomorrow. (Check about 1:20 in to see some now from the past)

My crazy thought was this: As theres more and more of us, and things change faster and faster, more and more predictions about the future will be true, because more and more will be going on.

Eventually what you get is everytime now. Not quite everytime here and now, unless here is all of earth, but the basic idea is that everything thats been going on is still going on somewhere (travel out from urban centers and you travel back in time, back to the pre-civilized if you know the right direction to go...) and eventually, everything that we thought would be happening in the future will all being going on somewhere at the same time.

[The hyperbole is a bit much, 'everything' is aways an insane word to use. But you get my point.]

So, if globalization is about anywhere being everywhere (or is it everywhere being anywhere?), the next century might be about anytime being everytime (or the other way around if you prefer).

It's a crazy train we're riding, but it's neat!

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