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The future belongs to people who believe in one

theblaze.com · 4h · first reportShare

The future will be different from today. The cars will be different. The clothes will probably look worse. Our phones might still be little black bricks with touch screens, but there will be new applications and new platforms for the dissemination of information. Some cities will grow, some will shrink, new suburbs will be built, and already dying small towns will finally collapse. There aren’t many logical reasons to have children in 2026. We don’t need them to work the farm or provide free labor at the shop. We have a tendency to imagine the future as essentially the present but a little farther away, with some higher numbers at the end of the date. But nothing stays the same forever. People grow old and die. New people are born. And the people who inhabit the future won't simply have different names from the people alive today. In some important ways, they will be different kinds of people, because they will disproportionately be the descendants of the people who chose to have child