Future

Emily Howarth Journal

__**Future**__ Living in a rapid growing, in every aspect, world you could constantly wonder what the future will hold for us. Will we be as technically advanced as we are said we will be? We do not know and in a way that is a scary idea, to not know what lies ahead of us.. We can also wonder if the phrase “history repeats itself” will actually happen, will events that affected our world so dramatically happen again, or could we possible be prepared for them? The future was brought up to me when I was discussing the novel 1984 with my aunt. When I asked her if she had read it she answered by saying that she read it in high school, in the 1960’s, and to her it was reading into what Orwell thought the future was going to hold. When thinking of this matter more seriously later that day I wondered if anyone who read this book before 1984 was scared by the ideas of what was coming. I know personally I probably would be, because you reading into a book where you are told that this Big Brother will come into power and he will create this world where you can not even think something without a Thoughtcrime catching you, that is scary. Another thing is because of the phrase, “history repeats itself” and here Orwell is writing basically how history will in a way repeat itself I would be very scared. Because Orwell wrote this novel around the time of the Holocaust you can imagine that he got some of the ideas from it. You can also infer from the novel that there are many features from the Holocaust that are similar to the novel. For instance the Gestapo and the Thoughtcrime, Hitler and Big Brother,etc.. Although the Holocaust was a much worse thing than the novel, we can see many similarities between the two. From this though, talking to my aunt about the future, it made me wonder what the future would be like. Will it be as interesting as people are guessing it will be, we do not know. I wonder though if Orwell could write now what he would think the future would hold for us. Would he consider another piece of history and write about it in a similar way, with some changes, or would he write about the technical advances and the technical world we could live in. Thinking about the future is something I believe is not done enough, I think everyone should look into the future of our world. Because if we take what people say our world is going to be like, we can start to create ideas or strategies so we will be prepared for any problems. I believe that if we prepare our future for the worse and we find solutions, that we will live in a much more satisfactory future then the one prepared for us now. This may sound weird but if we really look into our future deeply we can create this amazing world. We can make the phrase “history repeats itself” die, because we can find ways for history not to repeat itself. The future is such a topic that I feel you could continue to talk about for ages, and it is something I really find interesting. In conclusion I found that talking with my aunt about the novel and reading into the future, made me really think about the future that lies ahead for us. I feel as though we are a world that is growing so advanced in technology that it is hard to wonder what else technically we could create. Our world is already so advanced, what else is coming our way? Whoever is reading this think about our future lying ahead of us. What do you think it will hold?