Assalamualaikum.
According to the 'Back to The Future' movie we are told to witness that the year 2015 will have holographic shark coming out from the mouth of the cinema, and many other things that are not to be found during the year when the film was made.
And I must say that those people on cast and on set are pretty damn creative and imaginative about the future.
But the most famous thing which had been the anticipation for so many people especially kids in the 80's, 90's.. oh never mind, scratch that, let me rephrase, people who had been watching the said movie, is the flying skateboard called Hoverboard.
And now people are demanding scientists and engineers to build one so they can make the movie come true.
Well you can suck back all your demands, suckers.
Because if today hoverboard is just a prototype, then it means that the future is not like the movie, and people won't be wearing those 'futuristic'-ish clothes that looks more like a combo of denim and aluminium strips, (although I admit I pretty like the pepsi bottle design, wished they will make something like that), so stop daydreaming that there will be a time machine that will allow us to go back and forth in time so we can retrace our steps to who we are today or just saying hello to us in the future while checking out how our life turns out. NO.
(Yeah I might sound depressed in some way haha)
I mean, take a look at us now, except for the fact that we're like, more obsessed with our own devices rather than playing outdoor flying here and there, we are pretty much like the 80's, but with a huge leap in development in terms of technologies and buildings and philosophy and lifestyle (just to name so much hahah) My guess is that even if hoverboard are some kind of an important transport in 2015, we will still be flying here and there for the sake of going here and there, and most of the time we will still be looking at our devices while on the board.
Why?
Because we are googling the way to the intended destination, that is why.
More technologies means we are depending more and more on them. And this fact kinda scare the shit out of me from time to time.
What if there is a shortage of power and all the satellites are crushed by meteor or being hit by a lost bomb which was thrown by a superhero saving the world from war?
Where is your google now? Even the batteries are not enough to charged as much as 5% of your phone while you are searching for help.
And right then and there we have to do it the traditional way.
But what if there is no more printed maps because of the printing companies had lost so much from having not receiving any profit since digital map took over? Or the printed version was so out of date that they still (this might stings) have World Trade Center Tower in it?
Or if (God forbids) someplace encounters natural disasters that ransacked the whole town and the nearest town to get some help requires 2 days worth of travel (in case the cars broke down and the only option you have is to travel on foot)(in case the cars is out of gas and all the gas stations was destroyed)
Come on, we have seen these possibilities from those apocalypse related movies that has been like the new genre of movie, aite?
Having arrived at the apocalypse related movies, remember the movie '2012'?
Last time I checked the calendar, the year is 2015. What up?
The more reason not to be so absorbed into these kinds of unreliable prophecies. You should know that the end of the world and anything related to the life after death are secrets only Allah knows. So don't waste your time having a headache thinking too deep about when will it come. It will happen when Allah says so.
In the mean time just be well prepared. Like how you prepare yourself from head to toe going out to a formal event or how you practiced day and night for the upcoming tournament, like how you planned your trip months ahead or how you stay up until the eleventh hour to study for your final examination, those kinds of preparation, times billions.
Because life after death was said to be infinitely forever, so how do we want to spend it?
