FINAL DRAFT: Sarah Katz 11/12/08 Period 1 AP Language What Will Life Be Like…50 Years from Today? “Fifty years is just a dot on the cosmic scale; however, on a human scale, fifty years can initiate significant change” (Smoot 7, Jones 30). How can one determine what the world will be like in 50 years? That is a very good question. It all depends on one’s outlook. It is going to be either an optimistic opinion of the world or a dark, shadowy pessimistic attitude towards the Earth’s and society’s future. The world will either be cured of all terminal diseases or humans will not walk the Earth any longer. I believe that this world will have made a change by the year 2058. The world, in the year 2058, will be so technologically advanced that society will be cured of mostly all diseases, the life expectancy will rise, and the world will be a much happier and healthier place with raised human awareness about the environment. Technology is booming across the world and the United States, China, and India are paving the path towards a successful future. With new inventions and technology advancing as fast as it has been in the past, such as Ray Kurzweil, a prestigious inventor explains, “As prodigious and influential as information technology is already, we’ll see a billion fold improvement in the next quarter century, and then we’ll see it again”, diseases and other health issues are going to be a thought of the past. As mentioned by researchers across the world, if one lives to around the year 2045, their life expectancy is expected to double! This would be an amazing feat, seeing as though in the year 1910 was at an average of 49 years old. As years pass and life goes on, the life expectancy rate keeps increasing more and more each year. This is one of the many tests that shows how technology and a more advanced society make all the difference as far as the human race is concerned. Along with technology helping health issues, it will also change the world of communications. The world will become somewhat of a parallel to the science-fiction series “Star Wars” where people will be able to talk in holographic form instead of on the phone or one of the most popular ways of communication in the twenty-first century, electronic mail. This theory is explained through Vint Cerf, the vice president of Google’s personal opinion on the future, “Telepresence is holographic and sophisticated tracking mechanisms and presentation mechanisms allow groups to ‘meet’ in richly appointed virtual spaces” (Narayan 45). This would change the world of student study groups, business meetings, and other formal conferences in the world. Imagine you are eating lunch in Los Angeles as you are having a conversation with your boss in Japan and you can actually see him as though he is sitting there with you at the table. The world of technology is fascinating, and we as humans, have the power to change it all. As technology advances rapidly each day as the future becomes the present, other changes will be occurring in the world. For example, each day people are becoming more and more aware of their actions to the environment and to their own bodies. Global warming is a hot topic on the press for the twenty-first century. People need to understand that we are holding nature from naturally replenishing its resources by using them far too quickly. If we keep our actions continuous and do not help raise human awareness, we could have a bad future ahead of us. As Christian de Duve, founder of the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology in Belgium, explains, “…this movement is bound to snowball in self-accelerating fashion, eventually becoming irreversible” (Kurzweil 34). This is known as the snowball effect. Once one species starts to deplete the land of its resources, another species follows and so on thus created a vortex of endless reduction of the world around us. With raised human awareness, the world in the year 2058 will be a much happier and healthier place. Louis J. Ignarro, a distinguished professor of Pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine, believes in this philosophy that the world will be far better off if we all just come to realize that we control the life expectancy of not only us, but of the earth as well, “I am optimistic that people will experience a dramatic shift to a healthy lifestyle during the next fifty years” (Sidel 146). A healthy lifestyle meaning that the world will be in better shape that it is right now and that people will be able to thrive and prosper. One of the changes to the world that will make homes and places of business safer and more suitable for humans is the idea that Francis S. Collins, a geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, has, “Monitors in our homes and workplaces will pickup any evidence of a new environmental exposure that might be harmful” (Clarke 72). These monitors will keep track of harmful exposure that naturally occurs in the environment and allow humans to know whether the conditions they are living in are safe or not. This leads back to the advancement in technology and how the environment, human health, and technology are all interconnected much like the study of environmental science. If the humans change, the world will change with them and the world will be a far better place to live. The future is a long way off, but as technology advances, it will approach the present more rapidly than any of us would expect. In the year 2058 the world will be different, for better or for worse, well that all has to do with ones personal opinion. Personally I believe that the world will be healthier, happier, and more efficient. There will not be cancer, there will not be pollution. There will only be success with human being aware of their consequences. The world is changing, are you changing with it?
Works Cited Cerf, Vint. “As We May Live”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 1-3. Clarke, Richard “What Does It Mean to Be Human”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 68-73. Collins, Francis S. “A Revolution in Medicine”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 4-6. de Duve, Christian. “What’s Ahead: ‘Figures Don’t Lie’”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 11-14. Ignarro, Louis J. “NO More Heart Disease”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 18-21. Jones, Wanda. “Fifty Years from Now: Today’s Baby Reaches Middle Age”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 26-30. Kurzweil, Ray. “Progress Accelerates Exponentially”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 33-38. Narayan, Chandrasekhar. “Diary Entry: 2058”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 43-45. Sidel, Victor. “A Physician’s View of the Future”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 145-149. Smoot, George F. “A Tiny Dot in Cosmic Time; A Big Period in Human Time”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 7-10. SECOND DRAFT WITH TEACHER CORRECTIONS: Sarah Katz 10/03/08 Period 1 AP Language What Will Life Be Like…50 Years from Today? “Fifty years is just a dot on the cosmic scale; however, on a human scale, fifty years can initiate significant change” (Smoot 7, Jones 30). How can one determine what the world will be like in 50 years? That is a very good question. It all depends on one’s outlook. It is going to be either an optimistic opinion of the world or a dark, shadowy pessimistic attitude towards the Earth’s and society’s future. The world will either be cured of all terminal diseases or humans will not walk the Earth any longer. I believe that this world will have made a change by the year 2058. The world, in the year 2058, will be so technologically advanced that society will be cured of mostly all diseases, the life expectancy will rise, and the world will be a much happier and healthier place with raised human awareness about the environment. Technology
is booming across the world and the United States, China, and India are
paving the path towards a successful future. With new inventions and
technology advancing as fast as it has been in the past, such as Ray
Kurzweil, a prestigious inventor explains, “As prodigious and
influential as information technology is already, we’ll see a billion
fold improvement in the next quarter century, and then we’ll see it
again” ( As
technology advances rapidly each day as the future becomes the present,
other changes will be occurring in the world. For example, each day
people are becoming more and more aware of their actions to the
environment and to their own bodies. Global warming is a hot topic on
the press for the twenty-first century. People need to understand that
we are holding nature from naturally replenishing its resources by
using them far too quickly. If we keep our actions continuous and do
not help raise human awareness, we could have a bad future ahead of us.
As Christian de Duve, founder of the International Institute of
Cellular and Molecular Pathology in Belgium, explains, “…this movement
is bound to snowball in self-accelerating fashion, eventually becoming
irreversible” ( The future is a long way off, but as technology advances, it will approach the present more rapidly than any of us would expect. In the year 2058 the world will be different, for better or for worse, well that all has to do with ones personal opinion. Personally I believe that the world will be healthier, happier, and more efficient. There will not be cancer, there will not be pollution. There will only be success with human being aware of their consequences. The world is changing, are you changing with it? Works Cited Error #13 see http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc6t2pb9_103rtjm8rc2 I'll fix the first one for you... Cerf, Vint. “As We May Live”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Clarke, Richard “What Does It Mean to Be Human”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 68-73. Collins, Francis S. “A Revolution in Medicine”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 4-6. de Duve, Christian. “What’s Ahead: ‘Figures Don’t Lie’”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 11-14. Ignarro, Louis J. “NO More Heart Disease”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 18-21. Jones, Wanda. “Fifty Years from Now: Today’s Baby Reaches Middle Age”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 26-30. Kurzweil, Ray. “Progress Accelerates Exponentially”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 33-38. Narayan, Chandrasekhar. “Diary Entry: 2058”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 43-45. Sidel, Victor. “A Physician’s View of the Future”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 145-149. Smoot, George F. “A Tiny Dot in Cosmic Time; A Big Period in Human Time”. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. 7-10. "What Lies Ahead". New York Times 02 Oct. 2008. incomplete... need page numbers, name, etc FIRST DRAFT WITH PEER CORRECTIONS: Sarah Katz 09/26/08 Period 1 AP Language Score-6 -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:14 AM Good essay, just come up with more citations or double up on some of them -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:16 AM What Will Life Be Like…50 Years from Today? “Fifty years is just a dot on the cosmic scale; however, on a human scale, fifty years can initiate significant change” (Smoot 7). How can one determine what the world will be like in 50 years? That is a very good question. It all depends on one’s outlook. It is going to be either an optimistic opinion of the world or a dark, shadowy pessimistic attitude towards the Earth’s and society’s future. The world will either be cured of all terminal diseases or humans will not walk the Earth any longer. I believe that this world will have made a change by the year 2058. Earth, in the year 2058, will be extremely technologically advanced and will be cured of mostly all diseases, the life expectancy in humans will double if not triple, and the world will be a much happier and healthier place with raised human awareness.rethink thesis -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:05 AM Technology is booming across the world and the United States, China, and India are paving the path towards a successful future. With new inventions and technology advancing as fast as it has been in the past, such as Ray Kurzweil, a prestigious inventor explains, “As prodigious and influential as information technology is already, we’ll see a billion fold improvement in the next quarter century, and then we’ll see it again” (Kurzweil 34), diseases and other health issues are going to be a thought of the past. As mentioned by researchers across the world, if one lives to around the year 2045, their life expectancy is expected to double! This would be an amazing feat, seeing as though in the year 1910 was at an average of 49 years old. As years pass and life goes on, the life expectancy rate keeps increasing more and more each year. This is one of the many tests that shows how technology and a more advanced society make all the difference as far as the human race is concerned. Along with technology helping health issues, it will also change the world of communications. The world will become somewhat of a parallel to the science-fiction series “Star Wars” where people will be able to talk in holographic form instead of on the phone or one of the most popular ways of communication in the twenty-first century, electronic mail. This theory is explained through Vint Cerf, the vice president of Google’s personal opinion on the future, “Telepresence is holographic and sophisticated tracking mechanisms and presentation mechanisms allow groups to ‘meet’ in richly appointed virtual spaces” (Cerf 2)Try to mix up the citations. You dont need to write Cerf if you mentioned him before the quote. -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:07 AM . This would change the world of student study groups, business meetings, and other formal conferences in the world. Imagine you are eating lunch in Los Angeles as you are having a conversation with your boss in Japan and you can actually see him as though he is sitting there with you at the table. The world of technology is fascinating, and we as humans, have the power to change it all. As technology advances rapidly each day as the future becomes the present, other changes will be occurring in the world. For example, each day people are becoming more and more aware of their actions to the environment and to their own bodies. Global warming also known as “Climate Change” in the political worldThe "climate change" thing seems unnecesarry. -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:08 AM , is a hot topic on the press for the twenty-first century. People need to understand that we are holding nature from naturally replenishing its resources by using them far too quickly. If we keep our actions continuous and do not help raise human awareness, we could have a bad future ahead of us. As Christian de Duve, founder of the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology in Belgium, explains, “…this movement is bound to snowball in self-accelerating fashion, eventually becoming irreversible” (de Duve 13). This is known as the snowball effect. Once one species starts to deplete the land of its resources, another species follows and so on thus created a vortex of endless reduction of the world around us. With raised human awareness, the world in the year 2058 will be a much happier and healthier place. Louis J. Ignarro, a distinguished professor of Pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine, believes in this philosophy that the world will be far better off if we all just come to realize that we control the life expectancy of not only us, but of the earth as well, “I am optimistic that people will experience a dramatic shift to a healthy lifestyle during the next fifty years” (Ignarro 21). A healthy lifestyle meaning that the world will be in better shape that it is right now and that people will be able to thrive and prosper. One of the changes to the world that will make homes and places of business safer and more suitable for humans is the idea that Francis S. Collins, a geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, has, “Monitors in our homes and workplaces will pickup any evidence of a new environmental exposure that might be harmful” (Collins 5). These monitors will keep track of harmful exposure that naturally occurs in the environment and allow humans to know whether the conditions they are living in are safe or not. This leads back to the advancement in technology and how the environment, human health, and technology are all interconnected much like the study of environmental science. If the humans change, the world will change with them and the world will be a far better place to live. The future is a long way off, but as technology advances, it will approach the present more rapidly than any of us would expect. In the year 2058 the world will be different, for better or for worse, well that all has to do with ones personal opinion. Personally I believe that the world will be healthier, happier, and more efficient. There will not be cancer, there will not be pollution. There will only be success with human being aware of their consequences. The world is changing, are you changing with it?I like the question at the end. -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:12 AM Works CitedMore more more! -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:12 AM write the name of the article after the authors name -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:13 AM Cerf, Vint. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008.page numbers -Leland Curry 9/26/08 8:13 AM Collins, Francis S. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. de Duve, Christian. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. Ignarro, Louis J. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. Kurzweil, Ray. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. Smoot, George F. 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century. Tomas Nelsen, Inc. Tennessee: 2008. |