The future, such a mysterious thing. Never arriving but always
approaching. Many people have desired to know the future. We’ve even
seen several TV series based on that idea. Why are we so interested? I
think that people are always thinking about their immediate future,
imagining what will happen in the next 5 minutes, hour, or more. That’s
how we become surprised. We set up a number of expectations and surprise
happens when we observe soemthing that we couldn’t have predicted.
So what if someone offered you a crystal ball? Would you buy it? Would
you believe that they could have possibly found a way to look into the
future? I’ve heard that some religions hold that only God can know the
future… Is that a real belief? If so, what about things like the
tides? I can tell you when high tides will occur on May 9th, 2027.
Does that qualify as knowing the future? I wonder…