A Glimpse Into Our Future
I took a different approach to the semester project. My historical narrative is the present (2020), viewed from the future. Essentially, I'm analyzing the present as history and digging into our perception of reality. Now more than ever before, our understanding of reality is extremely fragile and being tested. Why not play around with that? I struggle with how much to give away here, but I also know that my project might need a bit of explaining. So if you just want to dive in right now, I encourage it. But if you don't mind a few spoilers, read on. My story takes place in the year 2080, though the specific year doesn't matter too much. The idea that the world is a simulation is front and center in a disturbing way, since every person on Earth now exists solely as a line of code in a program simulating some parts of physical life. They don't understand physical existence, so the concepts of going places or doing things don't entirely make sense to them. It'...