Apocalypse 3052: Final
A lot of what is projected for the future of 3052 is based
on current conditions extrapolated forward. There is nothing to say that humans
will or will not become wiser in their behaviors. There is nothing to say that the earth itself
will not throw up a major setback including global disease epidemics, an
asteroid strike, or the sun altering its temperature. Any such catastrophic
event would significantly alter this vision of the future.
Our own wills and behaviors may challenge the stride of
progress into this future. War and struggles over diminishing resources like
water and oil may take down civilization and set us back centuries before we
solve the supply and equitable distribution puzzle. If we imagine what we will
need and start to work on the remedy now, we may avoid that conflict.
Consider that the Dark Ages of mankind destroyed four
centuries of invention and progress. Look at today and the attainments we have
made in a mere 100 years and the last 25 in particular. Then consider where we would be today if we
had continued to progress in that time of the Dark Ages and were four hundred
years more advanced than we are today. Consider were we will be in only four
hundred years from now and that is were we would be today.
There is of course the concept that we only moved forward so
much because of the setback we endured. The next millennium future may either
be vastly slowed down by our ignorance or it may be greatly enhanced by it.
More change may take place after this civilization is decimated by some
cataclysmic event or process. That is what happened for Japan after WWII when The United States bombed them into ruins. Japan rose again bigger, faster and stronger than before
the war.
Even as planners and visionaries see a new world that must
be, there are those people who fear and do not want that future. They see a
future designed around the customs and credos they have always employed. They
seek a linear move into the future with absolute replication of the last decade
as model for the next.
Certainly, the next millennium will bring with it aspect of
society that we do not like. If there are such aspects we must guard against
them and make rational decisions about whether the negative things are merely a
negative thing or whether it is facet of future civilization that we cannot
live without.
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