It's Like That Really, Really Bad Jonas Brothers Song...

It's not quite the year 3000, but the future holds some pretty daunting ideas. Technology seems to grow everyday, and some new application on FaceBook constantly pops up in my notifications. With nifty things like webcams and Skype, we can see each other through computer screens. (And I thought AIM was the coolest things since sliced bread.)

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, the future is coming, and it's coming soon. The videos we watched in my communications class last week really got me thinking about what the next decades will bring. The video titled "The Future of Communication" was probably the scaries thing I've subjected myself to since reading 1984...even though it's fiction, there's something eerily true about it. At the rate we're going, who's to say that Google won't buy out Microsoft? It's not inplausible to consider Yahoo! and Amazon merging, is it? Especially in the economic crisis we find ourselves in, companies will consider anything to remain in business. There will be mergers, it's just a matter of who and when. Scary.

Even though "The Future of Communication" was done well, there was something Big-Brother-esque about it. Will we live in "virtual worlds," where experiences are simulated? The new movie with Bruce Willis called Surrogates seems to explore this idea. It's pretty creepy, if you ask me. I want to live my own life, on my own terms. I hope to God technology doesn't make that simple desire impossible some day. The other clip we watched, "Epic 2015," was a little better--not as morbid, and instead focused on technological advances and not the crossover between humans and machines.

They're all interesting concepts, and they certainly have the power to get the brain-juices flowing. But just how much of our future has already been predicted? It's a pretty unsettling thought.

Disclaimer: I, in no way shape or form, promote the Jonas Brothers. Frankly, they hurt my ears and eyes. Their song just serves my own purposes.