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The future is already here (Article)

joseph1956Posted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago3 min read


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The world changes vertiginously hand in hand with technology and takes us to spaces and situations worthy of a science fiction novel.

Less than four decades ago, communications via the Internet and cellular telephony were things of fantasy and not to think about social networks and other means of interaction that are now so common and that were not a tangible part.

To all this must be added transgenics, cloning, management of the human genome, transplants and other biological experiments that are making reality the possibility of a longer and more sustainable life, even outside the planet.

As if that were not enough, for the lovers of Asimov and his robotic utopia, these are already in each house in various ways and share the daily life of us, even are advanced experiments in which they can have their own intelligence Terminator style, so that Artificial Intelligence seems to cease to be a myth.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of a race that has been discovering its potential, using it not only for good but also to create weapons that could exterminate it in a few seconds.

The world no longer resembles that of a century ago and very little like that of half a century ago.

Society has been dynamizing and dynamiting and the new generations seem to be born with a chip inserted in which comes the information to handle all these changes.

Knowing the future is no longer so simple and fantasy seems to become real every day that passes, which is why those old superheroes that exploit the box office of the cinemas become popular, helped by very modern computerized scenarios that show scenes that could only be imagined by the hand of some cartoonist.

No longer does it surprise us that some X-Man or Spider can exist somewhere, or that we can be invisible helped by some suit, or some laboratory mutation transforms us into a Hulk or one of the four fantastic ones.

The media are becoming faster and faster and the planet is becoming too short to travel.

It takes just seconds for a train to travel hundreds of kilometers, or minutes for a plane to cross continents.

Marine explorers no longer have oceans to discover, so now they venture to go to the bottom of these, plagued by myths and monsters that are demystifying but leaving others behind.

The capacity of astonishment has been disappearing, the customs mixing for the media bombardment, the quantity of devices diminishing because the functions that before made ten now only one is able to realize them equal the size of these since the miniaturization of the hand of the chip, invention of scarcely fifty years, makes possible thousands of circuits in such a tiny space that it has been necessary to create new names to those measures.

The future is already here and will continue to expand, we are part of the same and protagonists in the race towards the unexpected.

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