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Describe a movie or a book about the future.

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Describe a movie or a book about the future.

You should say:

  • what it is
  • when you watched or read it
  • how it is related to future

and explain how it has depicted the future.

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This is such an interesting topic because I like to learn about what the future exactly holds for us and our world. While, many great movies have been made, and many books have also been written on this interesting subject, one particular book deserves to be specially mentioned here because of its interesting take on the future.

The name of this book is called “In 100 Years: Leading Economists Predict the Future” which was compiled and edited by an Economist, from the London School of Economics called Mr Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, in the year of 2014.  

This isn’t exactly like any other regular book, with chronology of thoughts or chain events, in a sense that it only contains the views and opinions of 10 prominent economists of the world, which included Nobel laureates and several other likely laureates, in order to offer their ideas about the world of the twenty-second century.

Anyway, regular or not, this makes very interesting and stimulating reading because some common predictions –  as in the common ideas and thoughts of all the 10 economists – emerge in this book. Some of these predictions include, but not limited to, continual improvement in technology, diminishing poverty and population growth, and catching up with most of the relatively poor countries the rich world while the server risks of climate change and the spreading of unforeseen epidemics. But, please understand that these are just some predictions, and they may not carry any resemblance with the realities.

Interesting enough though, after reading in 2017, I thought that it painted a rather rosy picture of our future world, with, of course, some predictions of bad news here and there in the book, but the main theme of the book has tried to show that the change in the “status quo” is almost inevitable as the transformation of wages and works, along with ever-increasing inequality, would probably make things lot worse before getting better, if it ever actually become better. Still, I think it is an interesting read because economists, in general, probably are more equipped to predict the future a bit better than some science fiction writers.

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