4. TIME TRAVEL TO THE FUTURE

Time travel is a dilemma for modern science, and seems to be more of a fantasy that is kept alive as the possibility of something unknown and new. The interesting thing about time travel is, perhaps, to satisfy an inner need or desire to know beyond what is humanly possible, to know what is going to happen, to witness it and perhaps to live it. Perhaps it is just the fantasy of an increasingly technological world, with newer things, that satisfy that fantasy of cyber and networks implanted by the spectacle and popular culture.

be that as it may, time travel exists, even if only at the level of an idea. Its usefulness, far from the practical function behind the concept of "travel", is no more than imagining virtual scenarios with the possibility of being, in the case of travel into the future, or simply the possibility of never having been, in the case of travel into the past.

In any case, if time travel is possible I would like to travel into the future a considerable number of years and see what humanity has become. I would like to see if the fantasies for the future installed by the spectacle and the market succumb to the irremediable world reality of ecological, environmental, sanitary, food contingencies and all those failures that seek to overshadow things like the spectacularization of the possibility of being of the technological sciences (the future as merchandise).

I am not clear about a specific time to which I would like to go, I think that whatever time it is, it will always be a time in which I will not understand much of what surrounds me. 

I am not clear about a specific time I would like to go to, I think that whatever time it is, it will always be a time in which I will not understand much of what surrounds me. In fact, if we think about it, time travel (especially to the future) could be a different experience from the perspective of will; cinema, for example, has been responsible for bringing to reality on several occasions the question of adaptability to unknown realities. I have seen more than one movie about prisoners or prisons where, at the moment of release, the former inmates cannot stand the new world, ending up in suicide or reinsertion. 

A curious example of the above is the anecdotal historical event of Mandela's release from prison; it is said that upon seeing one of the cameras of the journalistic team, Mandela thought it was a new weapon developed while he was deprived of his freedom. 

Time travel is a matter of perspective, for some the passage of time means the development of technologies that make human life easier, for others, like Mandela, it may simply mean the development of mechanisms and tools to make life easier.