The future is, and will always be, a fun topic to think about.
"What's going to happen in the future?" has to be one of the most open questions that man can ask themselves.
But, why is it so open ended?
It is because we simply can not begin to understand the full amount of variables in effect for such a question.
We can only make choices, and we can only have thoughts.
I, like most humans, have thoughts of the future of humanity.
Me being culturally inclined, I mostly question classes, systems, traditions.
The thing that will happen first is probably that we as people will enter a state of "voluntary surveillance".
I can only think about how blogging and Myspace/Facebook has shaped my idea of "privacy".
Over the past few years, I have believed less and less that privacy existed, and the more I blog, the more I think privacy was a stupid idea to begin with.
I now believe that if there's something you don't want people to know or see, obviously it should have been done.
My concept of right and wrong has begun to be shifted into something along the lines of "If you don't want somebody to know something, that something was wrong or incorrect, or at the least, improper."
From my knowledge, there is a growing trend towards, instead of against this.
It is, to say the least very different from the way our parents and grandparents used to live.
Why are we becoming like that though?
It's easy to assume that it's because of the internet, and Myspace, and Facebook, and blogs.
But, I think it's something deeper.
I think it's something that's been bubbling into our culture for a long time. But, the internet has turned that bubbling brook into a rushing river.
What is it?
The need for free.
It of course started in the 60's and 70's with things like "Free Love", and the "Hippies" trying to find ways to live aside from the government's often overpowering laws. Home-school, rebellion, modern rock, drugs, love, angst.
All these things (and of course more) shaped this era. This era that includes most of our very parents.
It is the era of people wanting to be people.
Instead of how in the past people wanted to be a nation.
Now, people began to seek societies that were then, and now, only dreamed of.
Utopia.
Pure, and perfect Communism.
Lots of people say "Capitalism is the best form of economy."
But, the fact is that Communism is and always will be the perfect government.
But, as humans pure Communism without corruption is, by all means, a near impossibility.
But then, in the early 90's another world began to emerge.
This world is the one we know as the internet.
And, it is very quickly on it's way to becoming a socialist world.
And, socialism is the middle ground between Capitalism and Communism.
As people are allowed to edit the very internet, and as editing the web becomes easier and easier, classes begin to be broken. On the internet, I can talk to Stephen Hawkins, I can look a the daily life of Bill Gates, and nearly everything on the web can be found for free (though at times through questionable means).
Anybody, at anytime, can all of a sudden find their blog shut down because to many people want to see it.
That my friend, is fame.
And, on the internet, anybody can get a devoted fan-base.
But, even with all of this, chances are there will be a downfall.
Internet will probably not succeed, and the social world probably will suffer more from the internet than it has gained.
I'll talk about that more tomorrow on "The Cultural Future: Part 2"
Until then, toodles :)
"What's going to happen in the future?" has to be one of the most open questions that man can ask themselves.
But, why is it so open ended?
It is because we simply can not begin to understand the full amount of variables in effect for such a question.
We can only make choices, and we can only have thoughts.
I, like most humans, have thoughts of the future of humanity.
Me being culturally inclined, I mostly question classes, systems, traditions.
The thing that will happen first is probably that we as people will enter a state of "voluntary surveillance".
I can only think about how blogging and Myspace/Facebook has shaped my idea of "privacy".
Over the past few years, I have believed less and less that privacy existed, and the more I blog, the more I think privacy was a stupid idea to begin with.
I now believe that if there's something you don't want people to know or see, obviously it should have been done.
My concept of right and wrong has begun to be shifted into something along the lines of "If you don't want somebody to know something, that something was wrong or incorrect, or at the least, improper."
From my knowledge, there is a growing trend towards, instead of against this.
It is, to say the least very different from the way our parents and grandparents used to live.
Why are we becoming like that though?
It's easy to assume that it's because of the internet, and Myspace, and Facebook, and blogs.
But, I think it's something deeper.
I think it's something that's been bubbling into our culture for a long time. But, the internet has turned that bubbling brook into a rushing river.
What is it?
The need for free.
It of course started in the 60's and 70's with things like "Free Love", and the "Hippies" trying to find ways to live aside from the government's often overpowering laws. Home-school, rebellion, modern rock, drugs, love, angst.
All these things (and of course more) shaped this era. This era that includes most of our very parents.
It is the era of people wanting to be people.
Instead of how in the past people wanted to be a nation.
Now, people began to seek societies that were then, and now, only dreamed of.
Utopia.
Pure, and perfect Communism.
Lots of people say "Capitalism is the best form of economy."
But, the fact is that Communism is and always will be the perfect government.
But, as humans pure Communism without corruption is, by all means, a near impossibility.
But then, in the early 90's another world began to emerge.
This world is the one we know as the internet.
And, it is very quickly on it's way to becoming a socialist world.
And, socialism is the middle ground between Capitalism and Communism.
As people are allowed to edit the very internet, and as editing the web becomes easier and easier, classes begin to be broken. On the internet, I can talk to Stephen Hawkins, I can look a the daily life of Bill Gates, and nearly everything on the web can be found for free (though at times through questionable means).
Anybody, at anytime, can all of a sudden find their blog shut down because to many people want to see it.
That my friend, is fame.
And, on the internet, anybody can get a devoted fan-base.
But, even with all of this, chances are there will be a downfall.
Internet will probably not succeed, and the social world probably will suffer more from the internet than it has gained.
I'll talk about that more tomorrow on "The Cultural Future: Part 2"
Until then, toodles :)
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