The future

Many claim that it is unpredictable, while a few believe that it will be better. Ohters will claim that we won’t exist in the future. The older ones will say that it is getting worse and worse….

The truth is that no one knows and can tell what is going to happen in the future. However some scientists examine the improvement made by humanity in the last century, compare it with the past and make some predictions about the future. Some of them come true, while some others are completely inaccurate.

I believe that although we cannot predict the future we can assume how some things will be. For instance, we can tell that in twenty or thirty years there will be very intelligent computers, maybe cleverer than the cleverest man alive, but it is still unpredictable what these machines will be looking like ( mobile phones, laptops or problably something we cannot imagine today).
Besides, even it may seem weird, I strongly hold that it is not so wise to know the future because then there is no point of living, hoping and mainly enjoying our lives. For example if we knew that in twenty years we would have everything we wanted without even trying we wouldn’ t appreciate what we were given, whereas if we don’t know the future we have to thrive to achieve our goals. And as a great Greek poet, Kavafis (if you want more information about Kavafis visit http://cavafis.compupress.gr/ ), said it is not the aim itself that would give us pleausure and satisfaction, but the trial and the “road” till we achieve it