Timeline by Michael Crichton "In other centuries, human beings aspiring for the redemption or improvement, freedom or education. In our century, however, we only want to have fun. We do not have much fear of illness and death, because of boredom, the feeling of not knowing what to make of our time, the feeling of not fun.
But where will all this frenzy of fun? What will people do when they get tired of television and cinema? The answer is known: it launches in activities such as sports, visits to theme parks and so on. Organized a fun, pre-chills. But when will people get tired of theme parks and emotions of these pre-cooked? Sooner or later, this artificiality will lead people to seek what is authentic. "Authenticity" is the keyword of the twenty-first century. What is really true, though? Whatever can not be built on purpose to obtain profit or controlled by large corporations. That exists in itself, autonomously, and is equipped with its own originality. But of course nothing in our modern world can aspire to this originality. The modern world is the capitalist equivalent of a formal garden, where everything is arranged and prepared to achieve a certain effect. Where nothing is whole and nothing is authentic.
"Where then people will look at this so rare and coveted experience of authenticity?
It will eventually turn to the past.
"The past is undoubtedly true. It 's the world that existed before Disney and Murdoch, Nissan and Sony, IBM and all other corporations that shape the present. The past has come before them , came and passed without their intrusion, their manipulations and their goods. The past is real, authentic. And this is what will make it incredibly attractive. That's why I say the future is the past.
The past is the only practical alternative to .....
words from the book in question, written in 1999 that, in my opinion, are of great contemporary relevance. Yeah, our only salvation to come: the past!
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