The ride at the New York world fair of '64 and '65 called Futurama is an interesting sight to see in the present day. Certainly technology has brought us much further than we ever had before; however, it did not unfold as many people anticipated.
I personally have been on many similar rides at Disney World in Orlando where Epcot was Walt Disney's city of the future, the image in this blog was the original sketch of what Walt Disney wanted the park to look like, he wanted them to be placed for people to live and work, and overall, but be a theme park, but an actual fully functioning city. Walt Disney's idea looks incredibly similar to the cities of tomorrow pictured in the world fair, but here we are some 50 years later with nothing that really matches what was predicted with technology.
As mentioned, on the one hand, technology has brought us to a point in human development that has increased our abilities far beyond what was imaginable, so much so that it is hard to picture a world without technology, like a smartphone or laptop.
Still, technology has had its drawbacks, social media in particular is a topic that has been hot since its creation in the early 2000s. Time and time again, studies have proven how suicide rates in young adults and teens have increased dramatically since 2008. Self-image and confidence within the younger generations have deteriorated to a point where most teens such as myself went through their middle school and high school life looking down on themselves because social media tells you how you should look, act, and be overall.
None of these predictions of suicide were ever intended when we were beginning to predict the future of technology all the way back since the moon landing was achieved. Yet, as technology begins to continue to evolve, the human brain must keep up with the evolution. More studies have proven that the human brain is incapable of evolving as fast as technology is, via a research paper I wrote back during my freshman year of college. We expect ourselves to change with technology when has been proven to be near impossible, each generation continues to become outdated, even I, who grew up with smartphones and other new technology have begone to fall behind in how new revolutionary technology works. If we think about how our parents feel or our parent's parents feel, technology has and will continue to be a step ahead of us as it evolves, at least to the average citizen.
I personally have been on many similar rides at Disney World in Orlando where Epcot was Walt Disney's city of the future, the image in this blog was the original sketch of what Walt Disney wanted the park to look like, he wanted them to be placed for people to live and work, and overall, but be a theme park, but an actual fully functioning city. Walt Disney's idea looks incredibly similar to the cities of tomorrow pictured in the world fair, but here we are some 50 years later with nothing that really matches what was predicted with technology.
As mentioned, on the one hand, technology has brought us to a point in human development that has increased our abilities far beyond what was imaginable, so much so that it is hard to picture a world without technology, like a smartphone or laptop.
Still, technology has had its drawbacks, social media in particular is a topic that has been hot since its creation in the early 2000s. Time and time again, studies have proven how suicide rates in young adults and teens have increased dramatically since 2008. Self-image and confidence within the younger generations have deteriorated to a point where most teens such as myself went through their middle school and high school life looking down on themselves because social media tells you how you should look, act, and be overall.
None of these predictions of suicide were ever intended when we were beginning to predict the future of technology all the way back since the moon landing was achieved. Yet, as technology begins to continue to evolve, the human brain must keep up with the evolution. More studies have proven that the human brain is incapable of evolving as fast as technology is, via a research paper I wrote back during my freshman year of college. We expect ourselves to change with technology when has been proven to be near impossible, each generation continues to become outdated, even I, who grew up with smartphones and other new technology have begone to fall behind in how new revolutionary technology works. If we think about how our parents feel or our parent's parents feel, technology has and will continue to be a step ahead of us as it evolves, at least to the average citizen.
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