All of these articles written by
different authors had to do with different aspect of the future, the majority
had to do with technology and what will happen if it gets out of hand. It was
believed that much of the world will be technologically advanced or that the
technology would eventually ruin much of the world for future generations. The
articles; The Machine Stops, This Changes
Everything and 50 Years From Now,
What Will the World Be Like? Go into immense detail about how human use and consumption for
themselves makes people not think about the people of the future. It can start
with that of climate change and how people understand it but still do not do
anything about it and how the older generations apologize to the future
generations. But all in all it can be shown in the short story about a machine
that just stops working.
In the
short story by EM Forster, The Machine Stop, focuses on a woman in a small room that
somehow shows a utopic future where the land of Earth is poisonous. She gets is
hold with her son and the talk over a video telemonitor, he asks her to come
and visit him but she is afraid of what’s outside and without out her machine
what will happen to her. Her name is Vashti and her son Kuno, they live across
the world she eventually tries to leave and go out the tunnel to the airship
but turns back and goes back inside. He keeps calling her to tell her to come
but she fakes an illness as an excuse to not see him, she finally gets the
courage though to see him she gets on an airship and is confused and frightened
by what she sees outside the ship such as the water and what appears to be
Asia. They see each other and he describes to her that he escaped and reached
the surface of the Earth and witnessed that the people did not need the machine
that it was brainwashed upon the people. Her son was recaptured by the Machine
and given the threat of ‘Homelessness” which is basically death. She leaves him
and lives her life with the machine, they do not talk for a very long time.
Kuno then tells her that the machine will eventually shutdown and break the
world that they know of will designate, this happens and everyone that lived with
the machine eventually dies. I believe that what this meant is the ending of
the relationship between Kuno and his mother is over. This story reminds me
very much of the video game Bioshock Infinite, especially the airship part, it
gives a steampunk feeling to the whole aspect of the story.
In the second article by Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything, she focuses
on and tells the reader that basically if you believe you are saving the Earth,
you not and that you are denying the fact of climate change. She went into the
analysis of how the impact of climate control and the way the world would look
like if the temperature rose in certain parts of the United States, including
California would be underwater. She gives numbers and facts from different sources
to inform people on the aspect of the climate, and what the exactly happening
including carbon dioxide emissions. She believes though that the governments
such as in Copenhagen, if the governments do not agree on certain aspects how are
we as people supposed to expect anything to change in the world. She focused on
this topic throughout most of the article, and that many of the scientists that
have told us certain facts about global warming are not really that accurate or
sure of what is really happening. Although the scientists that do see the
change and observed it correctly are one hundred percent sure that global
warming is a danger to civilization, no matter what. Instead of humans trying to do things to
change the course of what is happening to our Earth many people just deny it or
continue on our way. This is what is not helping, there are many ways that the
Earth can be renewed, this includes: renewable energy, using less carbon dioxide
fuel and more electric cars, changing the way objects get packaged to use less
plastic and more paper which can be recyclable and overall cutting back on emissions
that deplete the Ozone layer. This is the only way that much of the Earth can
be saved, yet people carry on with their normal lives and continue down the
path of the cycle, so that the future generations have to deal with an Earth
that does not have certain resources.
In the third Article written by Chip
Ward, 50 Years From Now, What Will the World Be Like? Illustrates an apology letter written
to his granddaughter, Madeline. The
letter is set up in a way that shows the reader, the truth about the things humans
spent on the world. It starts with the fact of oil and how people used it all
up and how everyone just hogs it not thinking about the consequences of what
could happen. Then how he was sorry about how dumb and blind people where, also
how he described the use of timber and agricultural products, which diminished
much of the wildlife including sea life. He continues that money was wasted and
advertising was a cheap trick that got the viewer absorbed. The fact that
chemical overburdened much of the world and even lungs and umbilical cords the
thought of chemicals at the time seemed to save lives and how reckless people
got with the aspect of chemicals and that it was all around them, the noisiness
of the world was another aspect and that he was mostly sorry in the fact of
taking away all the fresh, clean, crisp water in the world. That basically a
better word is possible if people try, it is just going to take some time, but
its very important for our children and our children’s children and so on.
