Predicting Future | Infinite Possibilities
Galileo pioneered the use of the telescope for observing the night sky, building upon Kepler’s laws to predict the elliptical orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
Combining Kepler’s Laws, Isaac Newton paved the way for Modern Physics with his Laws of Motion and consecutively Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity changed the understanding of space, matter and time.
Could a Homo sapient born in Africa be able to predict any of it?
Can you predict the future?
We can imagine the future. Many of the great discoveries came from our ability to imagine.
The ability to imagine is beyond the scope of understanding. Galileo discovered Saturn’s Rings just by imagining the space and cosmos and along with his immense ability to observe.
Everything that is there in this universe works according to some laws. We all just need to imagine, observe and decipher those laws.
J K Rowling imagined a world of wizards and transformed her imagination onto blank pages.
Stephen Hawking imagined the cosmos and transformed his imagination into derived theories about Black Holes.
Steve Jobs imagined flat screen cell phones and transformed his imagination into an iPhone. So, just remind yourself that you are made up of star-dust, you are a part of the Universe.
You can travel through the cosmos by just imagining, you can traverse through technological advancements by just imagining.
Imagining is the first step to the broad approach that lies ahead.
But we need to be clear about the fact that the future is still uncertain and no matter how much you imagine it to be your way, there is a possibility that it could go another way.
You need to prepare yourself for the possibility of failure. This is the zeroth step.
In his book, Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman introduces the two selves in the mind. The first self in the mind operates automatically and quickly and the second one with complex computations.
The first self can help you come up with an imaginative idea and the second self can help you execute it.
Just to give you an idea about these two selves, the idea for this article came from the first self as I was scrolling through Instagram and I saw a reel that had POV as its caption. The neuron in my mind awakens from deep sleep and a neuronamong many initiates in me the curiosity of the POV from the future. Now the first self has done its job of erupting curiosity and the second self needs to take action on it and now here I am writing this article.
We need to learn to control those two selves and start creating something. It could be poems, songs, technological advancements, movies, theories, canvases and don’t just limit yourself to just these things.
Go ignite your first self and start creating something that doesn’t exist.
Imagine things in colours that don’t exist.
Imagine things in dimensions that don’t exist.
Imagine things in time beyond the General Theory of Relativity.
Imagine things beyond anyone’s imagination.
Imagine.
3 responses to “Predicting Future | Infinite Possibilities”
Woahh, this is so insightful.
Humans always had the need to create. To imagine. Which is apparent from the investion of the wheel and concoction of medicine
Humans always had the need to create, to imagine. Which is apparent from the invention of wheels and the concoction of medicine.