The Present Predicts Future!

The future seems very distant, yet oddly close. It reveals itself in uncertain, unexpected ways, simple, yet unusual. Since ancient times, people have tried to predict it. Some got it right; others failed. From myths to stargazing, from oracles to logical predictions, humanity has always been curious about what lies ahead. History is full of visionaries and scientists who attempted to uncover the fabric of reality. From Newton's apple to Einstein’s relativity, from Galileo’s telescope to the quantum theories of Planck and Bohr, each step was a revolution. How discoveries were built on dreams, doubts, failures, and radical new ways of seeing the world. What was once wild imagination has now become the reality we live in, the history of science is a story of wild guesses slowly aligning with truth. Ancient thinkers once believed the Earth was flat, or that time was an absolute flow, constant, universal. And yet, we discovered relativity, quantum fields, and the invisible threads that hold the universe together. 

People in the past had imagined the time I now live in—2025. And it’s fascinating to realize that many of their guesses weren’t too far off. Humans have existed for around 50,000 years, perhaps even millions if we count earlier ancestors. Yet the most rapid change, intellectual, technological, philosophical, has occurred in just the past few centuries. 

When I was born, the world was still figuring out the full potential of phones, the internet, and digital media. Massive online markets and AI systems were just beginning. And now, here we are.

I’m only 19, still at the beginning of life, staring ahead at the vast, uncertain road of adulthood. I’ve probably got another 60 or 70 years to live, if all goes well. And like every person before me, I carry predictions about what lies ahead, but I’m never sure.

This moment in life, where childhood ends and adult life begins, a phase. It’s a phase of confusion, of suddenly being thrown into a world with no more hand-holding. Scientifically, it ties to the brain’s development. Emotionally, it’s the first time we truly ask: Who am I? What am I doing here? And despite pain and confusion, it’s also a beautiful phase, because it means we’re waking up.

There’s a term for the strange emptiness people feel after leaving school and entering adulthood, that is quarter-life crisis. Psychologically, our brain loses the structured learning environment, peer feedback, and purpose-driven schedules that guided us during school. Neurologically, the dopamine system seeks new rewards, yet the adult world often feels like it lacks immediate validation. Emotionally, we go through a sudden identity shift. The stability of childhood is replaced with existential questions. Pain and confusion seep in, but so does a kind of beauty. It’s in this pain that we find what it means to be human, our ability to love, to hope, to create, and to endure. Isn’t it incredible that despite knowing we’re all going to die, we still choose to dream, build, and connect?

At this age, I feel things more deeply. Joy, wonder, connection. Life starts to taste different. And for the first time, I realize how delicate and precious it is to feel something. To be alive.

This is where I begin to understand something powerful that Science is humanity’s defining trait. Other animals can build, communicate, or form bonds. Chimpanzees use spears. Dolphins have names. Crows craft tools. But only humans create instruments to understand reality. Only we ask questions not just about how to survive, but about why the stars shine, why we dream, why we fall in love. That curiosity, our desire to know and shape the world, that’s what makes us human. And it’s this same curiosity that will drive our future.

We look at the cosmos and say, "That seems impossible... I bet we could do it." To me, that is worth celebrating. And maybe, in the long thread of time, that will be our most human trait, the ability to question everything, to love deeply, to fail and still try again.

Maybe the sci-fi ideas we think about today will become real. Memory chips, the Matrix, reality simulations, even the ability to control cellular errors to achieve immortality. The current topics we discuss today, privacy, ethics, education, might evolve into something far more complex. The world will transform radically.

If that day comes, if we manage to bypass death, download knowledge, or merge with AI, then the pillars of our current world will crumble. Education, as we know it, would disappear. A child could gain 50 years of wisdom in minutes. History would become just another file. Entire systems like schools, universities, even languages, could fade. In their place, a new structure would emerge. One we cannot yet imagine.

But that’s the interesting part. Today’s world is built on three major pillars:

1. Science – laws, principles, and the structure of matter and energy.

2. Philosophy and Religion – frameworks that help us ask why we exist.

3. Experience and Emotion – the personal journey that brings meaning to life.

These systems shape morality, identity, law, and reality itself. From thermodynamics to quantum theory, from scriptures to moral codes, all these build the floors we walk on, we build our reality on, see around you, everything is just subsets of these. And yet, we don’t fully understand why they are true. Still, we live by them. They were carved slowly, by countless minds over millennia. From the Vedas to Einstein, from tribal myths to particle accelerators, we’ve been trying to understand what we are and why we’re here. Science governs the external. Religion governs the internal. Philosophy weaves them together.

Yet all of this could collapse with one discovery or one shift.

Let’s say we conquer death and time. What would be left? What would be the new problems, fears, joys? If everyone had infinite knowledge and perfect memory, what would love look like? What would family mean? Would people still sing, write poetry, watch sunsets? Our dreams would shift. Our art would change. Even our idea of the soul might evolve.

And if death were no longer a threat, would we still pray? We don’t even know if God exists, and still we pray. Why? Because deep within, we long for strength, connection, and something greater than ourselves. Maybe that’s just how humans are wired, maybe there’s a reason for that wiring.

Do you understand what that means?

The years we spend shaping our minds, earning degrees, understanding history and society, it would all become obsolete. So could jobs. Immortality would shake the very core of religion and philosophy. The search for God might end, but new questions would emerge. Our current goal as a civilization is to live, learn, and leave a mark in the infinite. A basic mortal human, thirsty for answers, looking up at the stars, might one day live for thousands of years. Even if it means nothing in the grand scale of time, we still try.

Even our values, good, bad, success, failure are temporary. They come from the systems we've built to survive. But what happens when survival is no longer a concern? When all answers are at our fingertips? When emotions can be programmed?

The future could be the birth of something entirely new, new definitions of life, purpose, and morality. We’d need new stories, new philosophies, maybe new senses. But despite all this unknown, one thing remains constant, that is our need for meaning.

Humans move through life in phases:

   Birth and wonder

   Identity and ideas

   Goals and ambitions

   Work and results

   Reflection and return

Each phase brings questions. And the only way we make sense of it all is by finding meaning, through love, purpose, connection, service, learning, or creativity. Maybe, in a distant future, we’ll still be searching for that meaning. Maybe in a world of perfect memory and eternal life, we’ll look back at these fragile, limited years and realize: This was beautiful too. Because even if everything changes, the essence of being human, the ability to wonder, to feel, to care, that might be the only thing that stays.

Yes, the Sun will one day explode. Earth will be torn apart. We’ll be gone. So ask yourself, for once why do we build structure, love each other, attach to materials, laugh, or cry, ask questions, run for education and jobs? Because we can. Because something in us insists on trying. Because even if the universe forgets us, we remember each other.

That’s what all the sages, scientists, poets, and dreamers have asked. That’s what connects the Vedic chants to modern code. That’s what keeps us walking forward into a future we cannot see—but still believe in.

So maybe one day, we will merge all ancient and modern knowledge into one grand truth, a unified understanding of life, soul, and reality. Maybe we’ll unlock secrets that rewrite existence itself. Maybe one day, we will bridge the thousands of years of philosophical and religious growth with cutting-edge technology. If that happens, the fundamental foundation of our world will change. A new world will rise, with new rules, new morals, new questions, and new ways of being. People will live forever. Everyone will know everything. And the desires, philosophies, and goals of such people? We can't even guess.

But until then, we must embrace our current world. Live by it. Protect it. Adapt and welcome the future with open arms. Change will come. It’s destined to. And we with our undying hope, will keep going, till eternity, as we have for thousands of years. And if that day comes, I hope we all carry the warmth of this moment and the simplicity of now.

We don’t know the future. But this present, this curious, fragile, hopeful present, predicts it.

-Anki_t5981