The great ideals remain the Cartesian axes of existence, and of every attempt to program it: without easy optimisms, nor sterile pessimisms

There are many ways to understand the future: let's start from this concept. For some, the future is a sequence of goals to be achieved, which they pursue with persevering intention: ultimately, the future, for them, is one justification of the present.
Or, for some dreamer, the future is imagination, reverie: kind of a golden age that this century of iron should follow, it is not clear for what assumptions.
It goes without saying that, for those who, on the contrary, are cognitive pessimists or are simply going through a bad period, the future looks hazy and dark: pregnant with menace. Again, therefore, the future would simply be an extended present: a sort of ur-present.
Then, there are the Epicureans, for whom, simply, the future does not exist: life is all condensed into the breakfast they are eating or the bus they are taking. Comforting, but a little dry. As, the future becomes hope or despair, expression of the aorist or eternity.

"Exchange a look of peace", and the farce becomes tragedy

A common future, however anchored to tangible characteristics

And yet, the future has, shall we say, tangible characteristics on which we can base ourselves to define it: to begin with, it is completely unknown to mortals what could it be their fate.
They might telegram me from Stockholm that I won the Nobel Prize and, having left the house to celebrate the best moment of my life, being hit by one Steinway Concert Grand Piano, precipitated from fifth floor of an apartment building: go ahead.

Those "dark realities" full of (new) mysteries about the cosmos

That reasonable (and reassuring) cause-and-effect mechanism

Secondly, established this margin of absolute unpredictability, what remains of the future can be, if not shaped, at least facilitated. Let me explain: there is a reasonable cause and effect mechanism that binds us to our future.
In short, if I don't enroll at the Polytechnic, it will be very difficult for me to become an engineer. Nice discovery, you will say: and it was needed Marco Cimino to explain that boiling water burns?
I apologize: in the example I have given the thing is absolutely evident, but there are much more articulated and complex choices, almost modular, that they are crucial for shaping our future.
Contributing causes, small and big choices, crossroads, crossroads, crossroads, which we face every day and in which we choose whether to turn or go straight: this is what I mean by cause-effect mechanism. A set of mechanisms, If we want.
Which, apparently, brings us back to the unpredictable future: many choices equal no choice. Conversely, I believe that we must rediscover the great faiths, the great ideals: those impressions that color our existence one color rather than the other.

This is how the population shapes Switzerland's digital future

The answer is to strive towards one's end, identifying the direction

This is the summary of the planning your future: not knowing exactly where we will be and if we will ever get there (Steinway permitting), but aiming for one's goal: find the direction.
It's a bit like when, returning from some trip, I see my mountains again, blue on the horizon of the Po Valley: suddenly, my sense of direction finds its Cartesian axes again, suddenly, I know where I am and where I'm going, north, south, east and west.
Of course, if I want to go in a street I don't know, in a city I don't know, I have to rely on the navigator: but I know where Milan is, where Bergamo and where Varese.
For the future, I imagine it's a bit like this: you work on your life, you try to improve, humanly and professionally, the most important choices are made carefully and it tends, as I said, to its own end.
Without the worries of pessimism nor the unmotivated enthusiasms ofoptimistic incurable.
Because, deep inside us, we are already our future: and we don't have time to waste it. Why, in an instant, the future is here.

The future of social media between opportunities and dangers