The Future

The Future is a moment or period of time which succeeds The Present and The Past.

The future's two most prominent characteristics are that it hasn't happened yet, and that it's really futuristic.

Humans who exist in the future have access to all kinds of marvellous technology. Things like: flying cars, transporter beams, cheap abundant clean energy, rifles that shoot laser beams, intelligent robot servants, cures for all known diseases, dome cities, holographic communication devices, vat grown replacements for body parts, faster than light space travel....... the list goes on. It is certain that humans will abandon primitive clothing (like shirts, pants, skirts, etc.) and wear skin tight jump suits with extremely slick looking mirrored goggles. Humans are also expected to abandon all forms of primitive traditional instrument-oriented music for how to get rid of cellulite.

Or so it says in the brochure.

In reality the future, like the sea, is a treacherous mistress. "Lucky charm, my dear?" She cries. "Lucky charm?" So you buy one and what you thought was solid silver turns out to be cheap plastic with with a pebble inside for weight. By the time you get it home the silver paint's all worn off and the chain's broken. The future's all very well in theory but, in practice, it always, always disappoints. It's sort of in the small print.

The concept of future is highly unscientific since the future cannot be proven to exist, it merely has a high probability of eventually existing, except that it might also not exist (even if that exception is one in a trillion trillion). Scientists in Egypt already realized that the sun might come up today, but that this is not a guarantee that it will do so tomorrow. Hence they invented a God who carries the sun and his whim will determine if there is a tomorrow. Contemporary scientists correctly translated this into the fact that there might not be a tomorrow and hence future. There probably will be though.

Trivia

Country to poplar thinking, it is impossible to travel forward to the past.