Looking at the world today, one can but wonder of what is yet to come..

As far as I can get a tiny glimpse, the "future" seems to be both, bright ...and horrendously dark.

The good tidings then, would come in the form of big time cures for cancer, AIDS and other fatal diseases perhaps with a single shot of some "weirdo-biotic", or a simple three-day course pill. Perhaps, nuclear medicine will be saturated directly into our blood streams to prevent the invasion of all viruses, just as now nuclear patented nations prevent invasion by neighboring aggressive powers, without any confrontation(?)

Well, it seems all will be 'bright' with cheap nuclear electricity everywhere, in every home, super babies immune to all defects and disease, "conveniently" born... and a population of mentally exhausted, liposucked intelligent beings that would have made their human-ancestors puke all day.

About the darkness (shoot me, I like Harry Potter)... dark deeds will indeed become more complex, crime more sophisticated and sublime. With the elitist side of man in full bloom, humans will worry how to protect themselves, from themselves. Managing the moolah is well, already an Inception-style nightmare.

In comparison, these future humans will see the last free tribes of the East and South-America, more at peace than them: Poorer, maybe, in material, but definitely richer, in contentment.

As the resources on our beloved earth dwindle, the thirst for a green utopia grows more intense. And the dream of a "perfect place to live" will remain to be exactly that: a dream..

Options left with our great, great, great grand children will be grand cities floating in the air (with no place left to live on the ground), flying vehicles jumping from one city to another. Architects burying them in underground housing and shopping complexes, schools and universities, constructed from byproducts and excrements, shopping online for home-like food...¦and then, people will finally start shifting over to the moon, for good, mostly due to the "common" shortage of pipes pumping rationed oxygen, from genetically-modified technoplants, into their airborne homes.

So all-in-all the vision of a future raised on solid bedrock? The world we live in is constantly racing past our present, to bring us a brighter future - or so we like to think, as these sweet imaginations pale into insignificance in the face of insurmountable problems that are plaguing the world, today.

Come 29th century, our children will be alive and kicking, threatened by gargantuan explosives, ethno-religious wars, unknown and bizarre illnesses and super-viruses -resulting in pestilence, far-reaching pandemics and famines, mass deaths and mass graves..with survivors wishing for death...more potential W.M.Ds than nuclear bombs, perhaps nanobombs -  invisible but capable of far worse holocausts.

Technology would be intricate and advancing and as everybody loves messing with it - Al-Qaeda is surely going to be there too.

But again, with all the medicinal accomplishments wouldn't life expectancy soar to an all time high? The dependent population would be towering over our working, super-intelligent grand grand children. "Super", for they would actually be computer-programmed and superior clones with cutting edge efficiency and capabilities.

Or, perhaps with biotechnology  exploring unknown realms of knowledge, scientists would end up creating weird and twisted clones of their own species, more frightening than Frankenstein ever dreamed of - bringing about a 'designer' evolution...designed to serve the elite.

Man's dream will indeed come true in this future along with a loss of faith. The transgenic man will be a spiritually vacant and empty shell, intelligent to the highest degree, but absolutely heartless.  In the attempt to achieve immortality scientists would dream our nightmares... where an evil Harry Potter would indeed be a real person with real magic, and where Gandalf and Frodo would dance with Oompaloompas.

I see this world merely as fragments of smog covered islands densely populated with these mentally invalid, mutated beings. Whose wars and ground shaking destruction would reduce skyscrapers and other architecture of today, to rubble beyond recognition, something that global warming would never achieve...and somewhere under this debris would be the handful of homo-sapien survivors grateful to find shelter from the ever-so-near sun, and ravaging competitors.

We are riding on the back of a foolish pride and arrogance of a materialistic, future world. And in the process, we are losing sight of the things vital for us: fraternity, peace of the body and soul, selflessness and religion.

That, is the grim, bleak, and nauseating picture of the future, that we like to think is just restricted to post-apocalypse era movies.

I do have a small advice for those who have had patience till this point...  just one thing though, to perhaps avoid the advent of such terrible times..One thing, and that’s all:

 Think, for it is the mere thought, that makes a man, human...

16th October 2011, 12.55 Am