Do you think that the future isn't what it used to be?

Question

Some the answers here are so good, i had to extend the question.

Answer 1

History tells us that we can't learn or predict anything with regards to history

So in the future anything that anyone predicted in the past would be incorrect

Therefore anything we think that the future is

it isn't

.

Answer 2

Depending on what you are asking?
This second was once my future, which was about the same as the second that has just gone by, so there is no difference...
But if you mean on a longer scale, yes I thought when I was young that the future was going to be fantastic, less work, more holidays, less stress, more peace, greater tolerance and understanding....etc.,

Now it is here, it is poo....!

The problem with the future is that to really make a difference you have to change your, and many, many others way of thinking... and that is bloody difficult....

Looking at the future from now I can only see more of the same.... until the oil runs out.... then the s**t will hit the fan.....!

Answer 3

Years ago, my future seemed so waaaaay ahead and now, it's right on the doorstep. Also, when I was younger, I knew that my future would be exciting and bright but a long way away. Now, I know that I was well off the mark because it just kept getting brighter and more and more unexpected!

Not only that though, it just keeps on coming at you at a rate of knots. The older you get, the future gets closer. You've barely thought about it and suddenly it's there hitting you on the head with a shovel. BAM! BAM! BAM!

For a short period, my future was as straight as a railroad track until it suddenly sprang into action mode again. So when I look into my future now, I don't look with wide eyed innocence, I look with a sort of, 'Well, what have you got in store for me now?' type of attitude. I've found from experience that there's no such thing as living in a rut and looking into the future expecting it to go like that is just plain daft!

So, in answer to your question: No. I don't think the future is what it used to be. It's a darn sight more exciting than I ever thought it could be and I know there's a ton more of it to come.

Answer 4

This question is wide open folks, and you already have a lot of answers. On the other hand, this is my favourite topic so I'm going to say my piece.

"My Piece"




Ha ha, just kidding.

The future we had in the past, wasn't really the future, it was just our dreams and there was a time when those dreams were seen from rose tinted spectacles. Now the trend, the very fashionable trend, is to predict a distopia, because bad news is more profitable than good news.

The future is what we make it. I want to make it a future with drastically reduced crime and poverty. I have a long way to go, but even the longest journeys begin with a single step. [Ancient Chinese Proverb]

Answer 5

What light do you intend your question to be viewed in? From a personal level of prospects the future holds for the average person or generally?

Back 100 years ago few people believed there would be such a thing as television, computers, light switches to turn on light and so forth, people were blind to what waited the Human species as a whole though that didn’t stop people from pushing the boundaries and seeing what exactly could be achieved. As technology has increased so has own immunity to its progress, we now ‘expect’ rather than push ourselves to exceed in bringing about the next technological advance, I fear for the decline of scientists, electricians, engineers and to sum it up radical inventors that find themselves not satisfied with a 9-5 and find themselves going out there and experimenting.

It is expected we’ll be able to habitat the moon some time in the near future, who is doing anything to enhance the progress? Not I, someone else will do it right?

The excitment has gone, we know we will create and advance.

Answer 6

At each point or moment in time, the future has many paths (or parallels). When you move beyond one moment in time, the future parallels or paths are the same as they were, but some of the paths or parallels have been passed and you cannot retrace your steps back in order to go down a path which has gone off in a totally different direction to your chosen parallel.

In the sense that once you (or some associated body) have made an irreversible decision, indeed the future is not what it used to be.

As time passes by, the paths or parallels you could have taken are no longer there. Each junction, or decision you make as time progresses, narrows your future parallel until the inevitable end of the path....death!

Answer 7

This is very insightful way to look at the condition future. Some would condemn such thinking saying that future does not exist, but it does as realistically the present moment. For within the character of the moment present are the time past and the time future. Our past stays with us as our attribute or our quality, and with the effects of our past we forge the time future into the moment that increasingly become the moment we are right now. To deny future as time is to deny the moment present and to deny all times.

With this in the mind, I would say that yes the future has change once and for all times. This has happened due to the efforts we have made in our past that are with us now as our qualities and attributes, and as our identities. Within the crucible of the time that is all but present and nothing else nothing is spared from the constant flux of tings flowing from creation to annihilation and then back again but each times each thing is not the same as it were before, however existing or alive.

I see that when I was young my time was limitless and now I still realised that it is unlimited but I now see more in between. I see what it was and what it has become, and then I think what it could become next. Now, with every breath I take I know that the next moment I live is the moment changed forever. It is strangest that what our future was then is our past now, and what we have here is our future now, in a moment; if our future would not change we would not have lived even for a single moment.

Answer 8

Yes. Our perception of the future is continually changing and varies widely from the likes of George Orwell's 1984 & H.G. Wells' The Time Machine to thoughts that we would be wearing silver jump suits and taking holidays on the moon by the year 2000.

I'd like to think the future's not so different from our present, we'll still be pretty much the same as we are now just with more advanced technology,

Answer 9

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday - and todays tomorrow will be here all too soon. All our tomorrows are but a fleeting blink of the eye in the great eons of time and then we are no more.
So make sure you make the most of today for as each day passes we have less tomorrows and we never know which day will be our last.
Our futures can never be what they used to be because each day that passes we take actions and make choices and decisions that change it constantly.

Answer 10

I think it's a Meatloaf song penned by Jim Steinman (the best kind), originally off Jim's 'Box' album from the 90s... 'I never knew that so many bad times could follow me so mercilessly/ it's almost unreal all the pain that I feel/ the future ain't what it used to be.'

Not too many people are picking up on that though, I can only wonder why it is... maybe not the future, but certainly Meatloaf ain't what he used to be... nah, he's still great :)

Answer 11

Now my friend you are going to confuse a lot of people. Because the future can't be what it was because it asn't happenned yet. Also one for you, If a tree falls in a forest does it make a noise if there is no-one there to hear it. Or does a wave make a noise breaking onto a beach if there is no-one to here it. Everything we know from preserves in a jar has been contained within something, like we are actually contained on the earth and in space, what is space contained within.