Sandscript in the Future

This week we all arrived in the future, 21st October 2015, as imagined in the 'Back to The Future' films. We are not all riding on hoverboards and experts discussed what they got right and wrong. A form of ‘Skype’ existed, but the internet was missed completely.
This is not the first time most of us have lived to see the future, there was 1984; George Orwell’s Big Brother has surely been watching us for a long time.

'Things to Come' is claimed to be the first classic science fiction film, a 1936 British black-and-white film from United Artists, produced by Alexander Korda and written by H.G. Wells. Coming very close to the truth, World War Two begins in 1940 with aerial bombing, but continues into the 1960’s. The people of the world have forgotten why they are fighting, Humanity enters a new Dark Age. The world is in ruins and there is little technology left. I have never seen the film, but the U tube clip of the trailer is fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwfW...
Most of us are probably more familiar with Sir Arthur Bliss’ rousing score.
The film looks as far as our future, by 2036 humans are living in underground cities, there is a planned flight to the moon…

Writers and film makers can look into the future and if it’s not too far ahead we will find out if they were right. Scientists claim time travel is impossible and certainly not to the past, citing as proof that nobody has ever visited us from the future. But how can we be sure? Human beings do not change over centuries, so we could pass them unaware in the street.
In ‘Three Ages of Man’ the stranger is sent on a journey he would have never believed possible, but as a scientist says to him ‘Just because something is impossible doesn’t mean it can’t happen.’ Read the novel and wonder who the people you meet in the street really are!
www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Ages-Brief-Enc...
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Sandscript

Janet Gogerty
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