The future society Essay #2

   Since ancient times, people, especially who are recognized as a celebrity, have made assumptions about the future world. It is very challenging and risky to guess the future. Some people underestimated the speed of change, and others emphasized only on the bright side. The possibility of exact estimate is extremely low, and many historians might not guess objectively, influenced by the social atmosphere. Despite these difficulties, analyzing the present world and guess the future would be helpful in many ways. The world will face three big changes; political change, technological change, and trading.

 Democracy will spread and be revised in 21^st century. Recently, people in several Middle East countries have struggled against autocracy. Starting with Tunisia, dictators in Egypt and Libya have been removed, and the rebellion is still in process in countries like Syria. As the world economy became unstable, the corruption of the autocratic governments got revealed. Also brutal way of suppressing protesters was shared in social network, gathering many protesters. The rapid change toward democracy in some Middle East countries will affect to other autocratic countries in Asia and Africa. Before long, Democracy will once again widely spread in a short period. Furthermore, the democracy will be significantly changed as time passes by. Original democratic countries such as United States and European Union have had a hard time solving inequality, unfairness, corruption, and many other social problems. Many philosophers will ponder a question ‘Is present democracy can really be justified?’, and they’ll revise democracy in many ways. The form and policies of government will be significantly reformed, as the philosophy they based on changes.

 New energy sources will eventually substitute petroleum. The whole world is facing difficulty of energy production, as the amount of petroleum decreases and the price of it rapidly rises. Also, as global warming gets serious, people started to seek energy source that doesn’t harm environment. A number of people are looking for new energy sources, obtaining a large number of good results. Diverse technologies are widely applied, but still it needs more improvement. For example, nuclear energy has been developed for 40 years, but it’s not enough to completely alternate petroleum. However, as more people step into alternative energy field and investment increases, the energy revolution will soon arrive. In the energy revolution period, huge petroleum companies will quickly lose their influence and authority. They would not want to lose their power, so they’ll try to delay these revolutions. However, since global warming becomes hot issue and the petroleum becomes scarce, the era of petroleum will make its end.

 People will judge value of a product not only by rational reason, but also by sentimental reason. People now judge product by price and quality. For example, people buy desks for comfortableness, design, price, and trademark. In the future, people will consider ‘story’ of the desk. There are many music TV programs such as ‘Super Star K’ and ‘I’m the Singer’. The viewers of the program not only judge music by music itself, but also the tense storyline of the competition. Although a song was not as good as they expected and was old-fashioned, the song tops the chart because the programs also broadcast how much singers made effort and how difficult their situations were. Likewise, in the 21^st century, people will not only evaluate songs, dramas, and movies by sentimental reason, but also evaluate material products by sentimental reasons. Companies will make story and dream in their product, and consumer and seller will trade these ‘story’.

 These three expectations are not certain. As society changes diversely, the future will be changed in many directions. Although, it is hard to make a correct assumption of the future, it will help show abundant potentiality of the future. People can get brilliant ideas by many assumptions, and they really change the world as they expected. Without numerous expectations of the future, the rapid social changes won’t continue. These three assumptions are the most plausible, which many people have discussed and agreed. Politics, technologies, and the way people think will definitely be different from the present. Revised democracy, renewable energy sources, and dream society will be the most important characteristic of the future.