Response Essay: Back To The Future

It is sometimes hard to grasp time as a whole, at least as a seventeen year old. In the current day, the accessibility to smartphones and air conditioning being relatively available is something I’ve lived in, where in the past, individuals such as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison had to innovate just to create the first telephone or light bulb. As society has grown so reliant on the use of these innovations, it is easy to forget that we have only had these for just over a century. With the thought of how far technology can go, it makes me think about the next century. The idea of the future, and all that it may entail, is truly able to captivate me. The unpredictable nature due to constant innovations to technology and medical research can not only provide a sense of wonder for the impending status of humanity, but also hope for what's to come.

Back to the Future Part II has one of the most iconic representations of the future, though taking place in 2015, technology such as flying cars, hoverboards, and robotic gas stations. While some predictions are realized as entirely incorrect, ideas such as video calling and tablets, which seemed so distant, are relative to everyday use. A more recent film, WALL-E offers a different take on the future, in the year 2805, in which the Earth is entirely garbage with a smokey brown aesthetic. Both takes on the future are quite different, as are opinions from person to person, making this such a unique concept. I watched both of these films as a kid, basing my early thoughts and inspiration off of