Children of the future, let me tell you something
Scout|October - December 2019
As sci-fi slowly turns into reality, how crazy can the distant future get?
Rogin Losa
Children of the future, let me tell you something

Children of the future will be Ray Bradbury’s wet dreams realized. Our “Black Mirror” imaginations are their historical anecdotes. In their heads, they would laugh at our idea of the future; the same way we laugh at movies like “Back to the Future” or “The Jetsons.”

Our present day is slowly catching up to sci-fi novels of the past. So at this point in time, how absurd can the distant future get?

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