The Importance Of Looking Back To The Future

As humans we are obsessed with what the future holds. For years people have made up stories about what the future will look like. We can look back through different science fiction books and movies to see what people thought the end of the world would look like or what the world would look like in 100 years. Popular examples of this can be seen in: The Jetsons, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Enders Game, War of the Worlds, 2012, Brave New World, and so many others. These different books and movies gave us a look at what the world could look like based on the past. The past is the one thing we can depend on (Dator, 1998). We cannot truly predict what the future will look like, but we know what the past looks like and how it affects our lives today. One of the current popular predictions everyone is focusing on are the ones made in Back to the Future. The reason for this is 2015 is the year Marty McFly comes to. People have been looking back at the movie to see how much of it was true, and …show more content…
We have to reevaluate the world and look at it through new eyes. Personally, I think the most promising things we saw in this class were the New Hero (PBS, 2013) videos. These people were not doing any grand acts, rather they were doing things they were passionate about and slowly changing people’s lives one at a time and letting it become a domino effect. This is something that is really important to me because I know if I can change just one person’s life in a positive way I could help to change the world. People in my past inspired me to pay forward what they gave to me, and if at least one person does the same from me affecting them those acts can continue to cause a chain reaction. I know that I have already helped to change the lives of 20 Cambodian children who will now have a chance at life and a future, and in their own way transform the