Introduction
The future is not written, but how we imagine it can affect
on the way we live and behave in the present, just like our personal
and collective histories can define who we are and how we act. It is for you
any psychoanalyst will tell. In other words, both the past and the future are always there.
present.
But the future is not distributed equally to us. Scientific laboratories, research
and fundamental institutions develop and study new ideas long before
how they become available and popular with the general public. Also
also applies to young people - they are often more open to experiment and everything
new and far less fixated or shackled by current ways of thinking.
In this book, you will get acquainted with 50 ideas from the field of representations.
about the future, as well as some quotes and visual timelines.
Some of the thoughts in this book—and the people behind the texts—
may seem a little crazy. But how can one judge, if not in hindsight?
Perhaps this is the essence of thinking about the future: it´s not about who is right, but who
wrong, but in looking at our beliefs. reflection
about the future - an attempt to stir up the present and unearth our stable
ideas about what happens and what cannot be - ideas, firmly
sewn into our vision of the future. Besides, it´s a way to remind people that
the future is created by actions and decisions made in the present, and we
we often forget about this.
And most importantly, thinking about the future allows us to dream. Two other aspects
of the future are quite obvious: first, technology usually catalyzes the offensive
future, and secondly, we often overestimate the impact of technological
and social changes in a short run, but we underestimate it in a much
a longer perspective.
Doubt? Perhaps because the future fools us, declaring
disguised and without warning. The future usually seeps into our
everyday life is not under fanfare. If the future appeared to us all at once,
under the distant rumble of drums, there would be a commotion - well, or a pleasant surprise.
I hope that the following pages will at least to some extent produce on you
both impressions.