A previous discussion about time travel has got me thinking. When it comes to the genre of sci-fi, does the ideas of it influence life? Or is it the other way around?
It’s almost like the chicken and the egg analogy. Did someone first write a crazy idea about cordless telephones and motor cars, and from that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone? Or was the telephone invented and then some practical thinking person decide how nice it would be to walk while talking on the telephone?
As a journalist, I believe that we are the first documenters of history. To have that taken away through the actual practical invention of time travel would be absolutely devastating. Besides, if everyone already knew what was going to happen, there would be no need for the news.
Do we know as humans already know that one day we are going to discover time travel and so therefore human history has been lived with this one event in mind? Have we as race never achieved anything extraordinarily possible because we all unconsciously know that we can get the answer – as soon as the boffins invent time travel?
Personally when thinking about these ‘bigger’ issues, life really gets put into perspective. Fate, karma, and the rest of all that come into play. If we start thinking too hard about out actions and decisions, then the ‘what if’ game gets played. And that’s no good for anyone.
There is this brilliant television advertisement that always makes me laugh and gets me thinking. It is for the job website Seek, but puts the question out there as to why as humans we have a need to know what’s over there, out there or up there? The answer; because we like to seek.
Apart from the fact that the advertisement is trying to get people to look at it’s website, there is also that message of ‘why is it we have to know what’s out there?’
Not to sound too corny, but I think because we seek, its what makes us human.
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