The Future

The Future

​The Future

​It is always difficult to foresee the future. We are not a prophesier, fortune-teller or crystal gazer. However, we all have our own opinion and/or belief as to what the future may bring us as a human spieces and as an individual. On the next slides you will be asked questions about the distant and near future. So, let's explore some of your thoughts about what is yet to come.

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Wormhole

​Wormholes are solutions to the Einstein field equations for gravity that act as "tunnels," connecting points in space-time in such a way that the trip between the points through the wormhole could take much less time than the trip through normal space. It is a theoretical passage through space creating a shortcut through time and space. Wormholes provide us with a door to the FUTURE.

The Future is Beyond

​Wormholes are seen as a possible means for traveling to distant worlds. How far does your imagination go? What's on the other side?

Open Ended

In your opinion, what will our world be like in the distant, far-off future? Why do you think this? Use complete sentences.

Open Ended

What words (adjectives, nouns, verbs) do you think of, when you hear "distant, far-off" future?

​It's Trailer Time

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On the next slide, you will see a short trailer to a movie. Be prepared to answer the following.

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​1. What is the movie about?

​2. Is it an accurate depiction/picture of the distant future?

Open Ended

What was the movie about?  Is it an accurate depiction/picture of the distant future?  Why? Why not?

​Interstellar is about Earth’s last chance to find a habitable planet before a lack of resources causes the human race to go extinct. The film’s protagonist is Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a former NASA pilot who is tasked with leading a mission through a wormhole to find a habitable planet in another galaxy.

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Dr. Brand (Michael Caine) explains to Cooper that NASA previously sent another group (Lazarus) to find a habitable planet but they’ve gone silent.

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​​There are two plans in the Interstellar plot:

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• Plan A involves Cooper transmitting quantum data back to Earth in order to develop a gravitational propulsion theory that will allow spacecrafts to carry people off Earth into the other galaxy.

• Plan B involves Cooper’s crew finding the remaining Lazarus crew and establishing a colony on another world.

​The Future is Now

​Let's come back to a future that is not too far beyond our immagination.

Open Ended

In your opinion, what do you think will happen to us and our world in the near future, in the next 10-30 years?  Why do you think this?  Use complete sentences.

​Challenges in the Future

Open Ended

In your opinion, what will be the biggest challenges for Germany in the near future? Why? Use complete sentences.

Poll

Which quote on the future do you agree with?

• “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

• "I never think of the future, it comes soon enough."

• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

• “The future depends on what we do in the present.”

• “What is coming is better than what is gone.”

​​The people behind the quotes

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​“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X

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​"I never think of the future, it comes soon enough." Albert Einstein

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​“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt

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​“The future depends on what we do in the present.” Mahatma Gandhi

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​“What is coming is better than what is gone.” Arabic Proverb

Malcolm X​

​“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.

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Albert Einstein

​"I never think of the future, it comes soon enough."

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Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

​“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt, (born October 11, 1884, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 7, 1962, New York City, New York), American first lady (1933–45), the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, and a United Nations diplomat and humanitarian. She was, in her time, one of the world’s most widely admired and powerful women.

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Mahatma Gandhi

​“The future depends on what we do in the present.”

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Mahatma Gandhi, byname of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi), Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country. Gandhi is internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest (satyagraha) to achieve political and social progress.

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Arabic Proverb الجايات أحسن من الرايحات

​“What is coming is better than what is gone.”

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​Sources

​Arabic Proverbs

​ https://kaleela.com/popular-arabic-proverbs-commonly-used-arabic-quotes/

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Photos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#/media/File:Mahatma-Gandhi,_studio,_1931.jpg

​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt#/media/File:Eleanor_Roosevelt_portrait_1933.jpg

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​Quotes

https://www.awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-quotes-on-the-future/

​ https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Future/Quotes

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Additional

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/interstellar-explained-meaning-plot-summary/

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