Week 14: Research

Since my story, The Femme Fatale, is supposed to be written in a future timeline, I thought it would be interesting to research different people's visions of the future. 

The website I checked out was an interesting project called the "Future Views toolkit". They include three different viewpoints to check out: where we are currently, how we see the future, and how can we get to the future we envision? I thought that was an interesting take. You can check out the website here:
https://futureviewstoolkit.com/

It is also important to note that the people interviewed for the Future Views toolkit reside in England, but I think that these ideas are worldly and could be applied to the situations of many different countries.

They discuss many internal factors and external factors that could affect the future. Internal factors would be things such as not getting enough encouragement from parents, societal prejudice, and the stereotype that young people are lazy. Some external factors that affect the future would be economic division in society, rising costs in the creative industry, and environmental factors (like pollution). I can see how some of these factors could affect the government of the United States that I'm writing about, and how it could cause such an institution to collapse if these factors aren't properly addressed.

Another interesting point that this site mentions about affection the future are technological changes. Because I am writing my story with the cyberpunk genre in mind, I imagine how technology could change the world drastically. 

Then looking into the far future, the people interviewed had some interesting ideas about what will happen. One of the most interesting things that was mentioned was that if technology gets to be too much then people might want an escape. They also talk about how technology might make people see old traditions in a different light, they talk about the possibility of media's effect on the people as well. 

It was cool to read about these different perspectives about the future and I never thought about all the different factors that might be involved to get us to where we are today.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 7 Part 2: Blue Moon

 For this journal I chose to continue what I had started writing in my discussion board post. This day was supposed to be as ordinary as any other. The sun was shining, the skies were crystal clear, and Lilian had just started her daily morning walk. She always enjoyed walking on a trail at the nature preserve that was by her house. The trail wasn't too long and twisted and turned next to the river that accompanied it. Everything was perfectly normal. Lilian found herself feeling breathless, so she decided to take an abrupt stop and sit next to the river. The sun beamed down on her and only made Lilian feel even more sweaty and exhausted. She reached down to unclip her water bottle from the small brown backpack she always brought with her. Shaking the water bottle, Lilian realized that its contents were almost empty, and she knew she had only a miniscule amount of water left for the rest of her journey. It felt like the heat was starting to get to Lilian and she almost believed i...
Read more

Week 8 Part 2: A-ha!

                       Misery was the only thing Wanda could feel in that moment. Never in her life had she felt such betrayal before—especially not from someone as close to her as Ronald. For years she had assumed that they had each poured blood, sweat, and tears into creating the perfect household. Wanda always liked to tell herself that she preferred to stay at home anyways. There was no need for her to go into the dangerous and scary outside world, Ronald would always be there to protect her. He was her knight in shining armor.                 So why was it then, that one fateful night, that Wanda found herself doing the most unimaginable thing—she awoke to Ronald’s phone vibrating loudly on the oak nightstand that stood beside their bed. Ronald was in such deep sleep and Wanda knew she didn’t want to disturb him....
Read more

Week 3 Part 1: The Stranger Comes to Town

                  It's not very often that a traveler stops by in Evergreen but when they do, they always tend to bring a little excitement with them. For the tiny shantytown of Evergreen resided in a remote mountainous region of the country. Mama had always joked, “If you’re stopping in Evergreen you must certainly be bored with your life.” And maybe I thought that was true if it weren’t for Bruce and everything he had brought with him.                 Normally only a few of the regulars managed to stay at my family’s bar past 11pm. Around that sleepy time of the night even the most self-proclaimed manliest of men would leave whatever coins they had on our counter, tip their hats in respect towards mama, and hustle out of the small shack to head back to their prospective homes. Around that time Mama would walk up to our front door ...
Read more