In Ten Years

In ten years, technology is going to be very advanced. The computer isn't really all that new, and it has already gotten this advanced. Therefore, there will probably be advancements in certain areas that the general populace is interested in. Advancements can only happen when people are supporting them, so with the support needed a certain concept can grow and thrive. There will most likely be more brands of iPods, seeming as how Apple comes out with a new one almost every few months. All that will be required for new iPods are different looks and a few new features, and then everybody will want one. It's always nice to have something that someone else doesn't, because it makes you feel like you are above others. Nano-technology is probably far off from being perfect, though. I don't foresee that becoming very advanced within the next couple of years. There is research going into it and people are working on the idea, but it's still in a sort of primitive stage. It would be very challenging for them to manage to create something so small that it could be transported through your veins as easily as blood in only ten years. Of course, the cell phone industry won't be left behind in the technological revolution. They always need to release new ones, just like the iPod. Except with cell phones there are more companies than just one releasing them and they are in a constant race to beat the other competitors. We already have touch-screen phones, so I don't exactly know where the companies can go from where they already are. Possibly a little chip in the mind, just like in Feed, except it would take very long to actually improve it so that it wouldn't kill the person that had it placed in. And in terms of music, I don't have much of an idea where we're going.   We've changed our musical taste so much over the past one-hundred years. It went from using guitars and drums and basses all the way to using purely electronic music. If I were to have children, they would probably look down on musical taste of ska, because it would be so odd to them. There will also probably be new forms of warfare. There used to be those fancy lines used to shoot the enemy, which then gradually went to guerilla warfare. With the development of new weapons there will be new ways to get rid of the other side. Psychological warfare would probably be more creative, and if the enemy didn't give in to psychological warfare we could just go in and wipe them out. That is, if they didn't have the same weapons we had. But with the creation of new weapons, there would be more threats from other nations, and thus there would probably be World War III. Probably not in the next ten years, but most likely much beyond then. Also, I'm looking forward to the literature. With every new couple of years comes many good books, but there are also the rather bad ones that need to be weeded out. There will always be overrated ones such as Twilight, and hidden deep below the bad ones are bound to be good ones, such as Everything Is Illuminated and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Movies will change too. Earlier movies were a lot more calm, with less violence and action. But as time went on we got more focused on creating movies with as much action as could be fit into a two-hour span, sometimes neglecting the plot line just to get in some good visuals and some good action. We're just like that with video games in that manner. Earlier games, such as Tetris and Snake (probably the best two classic games to ever be created),  were much more mellow than the ones we have out now. Now we focus mostly on creating shooting games, or games where you can go out and slay monsters. I used to buy games mostly for the single-player, seeming as how multi-player wasn't exactly so great back then, and I would play the game for weeks, re-playing it on a harder difficulty each time. Now I buy games not only for the single-player, which I now only play through once, but I mainly get them for the multi-player. I somehow enjoy pretending that I'm a soldier, running around in a fake battlefield and shooting other people pretending to be soldiers. Somehow the seed of violent gaming has gone and been sown deep down into my mind, making it so when i start up a shooter game I get so concentrated on it that hours can pass very quickly, with my mind trying to figure out as many strategies as possible with my mind trying to figure out physics so that I can get that one guy around the corner, who when he goes down will just come back as some other person with the same name and same stuff by some miracle. I often find myself wondering how I can enjoy running around and fake killing people for hours on end, some times in the exact same way as several other people. Now the video games will be more violent in ten years with people loving the blood and gore, which I personally cannot stand. There are going to be more realistic war games, where people will be killing others but not actually feeling the fear of actual death or the stress that war can put you through. And the world has already gotten to such a point that many people don't have any respect for authority or the strive to learn something or the want to become specialized in some sort of trade so that their life won't suck in the future. All they do is talk and get really annoying in classes, not paying the attention needed to the actual class and what they could be learning. Then they go and blame the teacher for not teaching them what needed, when the students themselves weren't actually paying attention. In ten years, that'll probably be a worse problem than it is currently.

So all in all, there might be a few good advancements and a few bad advancements. But from my point of view I see that we are gradually heading on a downward slope to an unescapable pit commonly referred to as demise. I pray we can save ourselves.