THE END OF THE HISTORY ILLUSION (Carla Yu)

THE END OF THE HISTORY ILLUSION

It is said that preferences changes about the years, and for sure we’re not going to have the same preferences or do the same choices now, than in 10 years.

The main purpose of this video is just to explain and concenciate people about our own life choices, do a research about the human history and compare the difference between then and now, and how things, mentalities and this world have changed among the years.

First of all, what does ‘’The end of the history illusion’’ means? What is this about?

Psychologists and experts called our inability to predict personal choices in the future or future changes ‘’The end of history illusion’’, this applies to our individual lives too.

At first people would never think that trains could  replace horses, then one decade after the same with radios, pfones, TV or computers… Some experts even insisted that this would never catch on, but one thing that we are 100% sure about is that technology is constantly changing, we failed to predict that technologies of the present will change future.

Experts and psychologists have made a research to study this phenomenon.

They compared different predictions that people has about itselves.

This study says that young people changes more of preferences than old people, however, this doesn’t mean that old people can’t change of preferences too. Another study said that people would pay a 60% more to see they favourite group in 10 years than what they actually pay for see they favourite groups of 10 years ago.

In conclusion we can say that future is unpredictable. We’re unable to predict the future by ourselves, we predict our future preferences or choices based in our present preferences, however there’s no way to predict what our preferences will be, the same with technology, we cannot predict what new inventions will populate it.

Society is constantly changing and improving itselves. World can change for better, a change is no always a bad thing.