The Future is Weird

Go back 50 years and tell them that 72% of all high school students would continue on to college, and that MORE WOMEN THAN MEN would be enrolled every year. Then tell them that every college and high school kid in America would have a 'virtual life' where they worshiped pictures of their friends and wrote crude yet slightly amusing comments on a 'page' that contained their 'virtual identity.' Even adults would buy and sell things that don't really exist in a virtual world.

Then tell them that if you pay Richard Branson $200,000 you can fly into outer space, and that people walk around talking to people on their 'bluetooth' 'cell phones.' You also have to explain that although these people look like they're crazy for talking to themselves, only a small percentage actually are. 

Tell them you can find information on anything in the world, instantly, and for free, just because Google wants you to. And yes, people in the future have discovered that Google is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good (or at least mostly good). When they ask who writes encyclopedias in the future, tell them that anyone who wants to does it without a publishing company or any formal training, using Wikipedia. 

Life has changed dramatically in a very short span of time. Society is completely different than it has ever been throughout the course of history. The cool part is it's going to keep changing. 

When we launch Kicknote.com you can go back in time and tell people that in the future you no longer need a record label to sell a multi-platinum record or to book a world tour. You can do all that right from your home computer (because people will soon spend more time on the Internet than watching TV). And in fact while we're on the topic of music, vinyl records are just collector's items sold at novelty stores. People listen to MP3s on their iPods now. 

Once you start getting technical, you'll have to explain to them that the English language has changed a little bit, too. They might be overwhelmed and say 'wtf!?" but you can just respond with 'KN is da bomb, n pce out, ill cu in '07. ttyl mofo.' then you can just hop back in your time machine and subscribe to the Kicknote.com blog to keep up with the fast-paced changes in the music industry.