As the eras dawn and fade, as time slips by in pace, as the past recedes, so does it change the course of history. Empires fall and grow, citizens become more liberal, and our human characteristics mostly remain the same, modified a bit by societal constrains. We don’t know where the future leads, for we are bound to the present and immune to the past. We don’t know if there will be times of despair or times of pleasantries, yet, one thing we know for sure, is that in the future we will bring with us the past, use the present, and remain human in doing along the way, for that is what we are, inventors, caretakers, lovers, and friends, capitalists, literate, and sometimes just odd men.
History is a repetition of individual days
To try and foresee the future, is a human fallibility, we know there will be one, we know one day we will see, that the future has evaded our grasp, and moved past the present to be someday soon. We know that time will continue marching on, although, what we don’t know, is how to increase the best possible chance, that the future will be the best possible future, from cities to space, political systems to society, engineering and the arts, we need to plan to get the best possible lucky break, a chance if you will, at becoming what we may.
The luck we make, may in fact come through preparation
If we wish the future to be, more and more inline with contentment, prosperity, and what we hope, than someone or a group, must figure out how to plan for it all. How to plan for technology and the human condition, shifts in thinking to an epoch change, a discovery that remakes it all, to the plan of what to do with the land we know. In the distant future, we will be fueled by the past, so we should probably give it our best shot and bring together the brightest minds, we wish to arrive everyday into the future, with at least a good idea of how to make the best use of our resources.
No one knows for sure what the future may hold, perhaps we will undo the greats of history, perhaps we will arrive to a wave, a crest of innovation, a new governmental form for the people. How to implement all of those possibilities, is something I believe, humanity needs to study with its utmost care, invoke the brains of reason, the creatives of the mind, and get the people thinking, of what they would like humanity to become.
Never forget, there will be tomorrow too, the day before is always new
If we plan for the future, with all we got, perhaps that future will be more pleasant, a pathway to happiness and inspirational hope. I know that if we plan for as many certainties as possible, we will reach it no doubt. We will reach it and wonder, what comes next, for the tale of humanity is not a book you shut, it is not a book you put down, it is ongoing and eternal, it is the book of man and when the readers read, the past and present, we would like the book to get better as you flip through the pages, we would like for humanity to prosper and grow. So let us all help write the book, and we will all be grateful to those, who helped bring about the future when it sails through time, reaching us in the present with humanity at the high points of our lives.
The hardest part of planning, is writing something down.
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