My Hope for 2010: Scott Hinkley

My hope for 2010 is that we finally start acting like it is supposed to be the future already. Since my childhood, I have seen that generations before ours have been projecting their notion of the future onto the start of the 21st century. Now were are almost a decade into it, computers and instant communication are more or less the norm, science is working on new breakthroughs, and socially we are all expanding our tolerance for differences. The continued challenge, as I see it, is to continue to embody the synergistic goals that our 1960's sci-fi promised.

I don't think that this shift can be achieved overnight, but I do think that 2010 will be a numerical milestone at the very least, and in my hopes, one that can define how we proceed in the next decade. Mostly, I think we need to keep hope up while we attempt to achieve all these lofty goals. I don't hope for socialism, but I do long for reasonable sociability among strangers and family alike. And I think we are right on target, as long as we don't let our fears and our greed hold us back from the bold choices we will continue to face in the next year. We are each made of billions upon billions of atoms, and we live near one of billions upon billions of stars. Lets find peace this year in that great continuum.

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