“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
Jack Welch
Like good fairies, relatives and friends gather around the crib of a newborn baby to look at him and to speculate about his/her future.
When he grows up, what is he going to be?
He has big ears, says one; he will be a musician. She has a big mouth, says a dentist, probably a politician. He cries a lot, says a Republican, he will be a Socialist.
But the future is not what it used to be.
When I was a child it was a mirage shimmering on the horizon. Today it is a harsh reality and it is banging on your door.
And you cannot ignore it because nothing is more dangerous than a lack of information.
So, who owns the future?
Techies and lawyers! That’s who. And plumbers! There is gold in them faucets!
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Techies will routinely outperform Jesus in the miracles department.
They don’t speak Aramaic but communicate through a bizarre combination of digits only understood by their own disciples.
Their altar is a keyboard and they worship a Golden Calf who goes by the name of Logic.
Thanks to them, blind people will see (bionic eyes), cripples will walk (bionic prosthetics), deaf-mute will speak (via brain waves) and lepers will be cured (gene therapy).
In an increasingly politically correct world, even wars will fought with “green ammunition”.
“Green bullet, green ammunition or green ammo are nicknames for a United States Department of Defense program to eliminate the use of hazardous materials from small arms ammunition and from small arms ammunition manufacturing. Initial objectives were elimination of ozone-depleting substances, volatile organic compounds, and heavy metals from primers and projectiles.”
In other words, people will be killed cleanly. This novel idea will definitely please the ecologists.
What about love and emotions?
No worries. Like in India, a machine will pick the right mate for you. And it will do a better job than you would.
So how do we deal with the future?
As Jacques de Chabannes, Lord of La Palice would say, “We must embrace it, because regardless of our age or beliefs the future is here to stay.”
Well said Jacques!
(“…two days before his death / he was still quite alive”.)
Alain