My Perspective About Future
Here is 2021 and we are still stuck in this pandemic. But I guess nobody is really anxious like we used to be a year ago because we live in a world where the gateway from anxiety to satisfactory costs only a minute as long as we have a new content on our newsfeed.
Though with pandemic, hey, life isn’t totally bad after all. People may argue that is probably because I have enjoyed the privilege of worrying-free from the economic impact since I’m all here with monthly allowance. But I’m here not to brag about my privilege, I’m here to tell you what I think. And I hope that what I think can provide you some senses of acknowledgement to the situation we are facing right now and in the future.
It starts with the very basic question. “Why do I have to survive if life basically has no meaning?”. I have always had the existential crisis. So instead of trying to answer “Because …”, I move on to ask another question. “What do I live for?”. I imagine myself to be a useful person for the next decades (2020s onward), trying to define my circle of competence, interest, passion, influence from environment, and what I care about the most. It turns out that there are two things that I think they will be very important. They are data and languages.
It doesn’t matter whether you like it or not, everyone will be talking about data as a new form of wealth. Data offers you the accuracy of information and predictability. I don’t know much about the 4th or 5th industrial revolution (it’s not in my circle of competence), but I truly understand that what will guarantee the success of the next revolution is depending on the legitimacy of managing data. Financial sector will lead the way as it always does because we live in the capitalist world. Take investment. Understanding data allows investors to predict and efficiently allocate the resource. It will make them rich and save their times. I don’t know who will be the losers in the next revolution but those who know nothing about the internet and data.
Globalisation is an irreversible trend. I don’t know if there will be someone trying to stop the trend, but it will just keep expanding, and the world will just keep connecting. If you follow the trend, you have to understand that the success of globalisation is English language. But in the near future, it will reach its peak as new superpowers emerge, so you will need more than just your mother tongue and English to join the force. Polyglots will be a lot more common and it will be no longer strange to know that someone can speak more than 3 languages fluently. As a matter of fact, humans don’t just live physically, as we also live emotionally. Languages will be the bridge to the soul of the culture of people who speak language, and it allows us to enjoy the new form of happiness. If I’m not wrong, Romanticism has been a form of happiness that we have embraced and adopted around the world. But that’s about to change or evolve into a new version.
These very kinds of thought come from my own perspective owing the relation to my circle of competence and influence from my very own environment I am currently living in. I believe people need to hear this, especially the ones with existential crisis.
