While thinking about the idea of possible parallel universes, I came to the thought that the future is, in a way, a parallel universe. It is impossible to know how or what the future will become. Just imagine being a poor peasant back in the Middle Ages and being told that in the future men will walk on the moon, or that a person in China will be able to speak to a person in …showed first 75 words of 809 total…

…showed last 75 words of 809 total…in The Time Machine, or become an extreme case of distopia, as in 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. To keep this from happening, societies around the world need to adopt philosophies that deal more with the curing of societal sicknesses, such as materialism and the lust for power, and adopt more relaxed atmospheres when dealing with justice and national security. Otherwise, our future may end up a parallel universe where humans don’t have any control over themselves.