Technology will have a huge part in what the future may entail; which be a good thing or a horrible thing. This is why I will be talking about …show more content…
We don't actually know what going to happen; George Orwell thought he could predict the future, and so does Jared Diamond. What we are doing is using what happening in the past and present to predict the future. Which is really unfair to the future. If we really sit down and think about it has anyone prediction from the past even been remotely close to the world we live in now. George Orwell is a great example of what people believe what would happen in the future.In the book1984, the world was divided into three superpowers who waged constant war with each other. Yes, we go to war but the world is not divided into three superpowers. That just one thing that he said would happen. Jared Diamond wrote in his article "The Last American" that we will have the same fate as the Mayans. Which prove my point of how we go off things we know to predict the future. The Mayans were an ancient civilization, we are far from ancient so why would you compare the two. They say history repeats itself, but when has history ever repeated itself and the exact same thing happens again. Yes, conceivably small similarities but it's never exactly the same. We shouldn't compare the future to the past or the present, nothing is perfect. I see all these comparisons as insults to future great minds. Let them invent our