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In the future there will be no cinemas. There will be no movies. No novels.

There will still be music. But music will not be the same. It will be in seconds, not minutes. We will watch what I call "live art." We will be able to view holographic virtual reality. Holograms of our favorite actors will speak to us. But there will be no current actors. No more celebrities.

We will live "enclosed" lives in virtual homes. We will employ robots who will do our work, do our jobs and fight our wars. Nothing will be real anymore.

We will be able to watch classic movies like the Godfather and exist within the scenes. Handing a gun to a young Don Vito. We will feel everything but nothing at the same time.

Novels will return to a form of Haiku. An instant short story that is short and visual. Our attention span will be so low that novels will be a kind of preview to keep us thinking. A good metaphor for future novels will be the paragraph under the title "plot" on any film wikipedia page.

The greatest challenge for the future human will be fighting the urge to stop imagining.

We will become the creators of our movies. We will be able to create massive special effects in an instant by a computer remodeling our thoughts and dreams into visual reality. But it won't be real, it will only be experienced as real.

We will be the main actors of our own movies as they will be a kind of reassembled dream. There will be no need for knowledge because entire encyclopedias of knowledge will be downloaded into our minds. We will be able to genetically alter our talents and abilities to give us designer attributes.

Our minds will stop requiring the need to think, our bodies will lose an individual form because of our ability to re-design them at will like wearing a different set of clothes and our human needs will be grossly unmet.

As each new generation grows outward each individual will lose meaning in a world of more than ten billion people. As technology develops, our emotions will be unprepared for this great change and we will try to rebel against our technological progress.

But what is the point of saying this?

I want to write a "future" story. Something they may look back at one day and call one of the first. My thoughts are simply predictions. But perhaps this is the future of writing. From the earliest days when we wrote in ancient languages on cave walls to the first writings with ink to the spoken dialogue of Shakespeare, our culture has used language to communicate. So what would a future story communicate? What would its theme be? What is lost in this future? Our humanity.

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