Dear Anna,
Hello
there, my name is Eric Rausch and I am from the year 2014 located in the frigid
land of Duluth Minnesota. You may be wondering why I am writing to you and how
I came to find the time machine as well as understanding that we can only send
letters through the vacuum shoot. Jocelyn is actually my professor in class in
the future, and she assigned me the duty of writing you and explaining the
future! In the following letter I will be informing you of all the new forms of
communications in 2014 compared to your 1873 such as a thing called “tweeting”
and all about “posting”. I’m excited for this opportunity, I hope this helps
paint a clearer picture of 2014 for you and gives you all the answers to your
questions.
Much
like you stated in the letter you wrote to Jocelyn that she gave to me, when
talking face-to-face even in my present (your future) we still surprisingly in
fact talk about the weather quite regularly, especially in Minnesota where the
weather changes every 5 minutes. It is one of the main ice breakers for our conversations.
We also regularly discuss athletics the main one’s being football and soccer, I’m
sure people have quite the sports following in your time as well, just maybe
different sports.
To
answer your most crucial question it is going to take a few paragraphs to talk
it all out with you, here we go. The way we communicate in my world (2014) can
be accomplished in many, many forms or platforms. These platforms are different
forms of social media communications, they have a wide array of them for all
different scenarios. These give us the ability
to instantaneously communicate or share information with someone thousands and
thousands of miles away if we want. (Crazy to believe I know)
The
first platform I’m going to explain to you is a social integration website
(from the internet, whole different story) called Facebook. This is a place
where you can post your thoughts for the day on your “wall”, as well as photos
of yourself, family members, or any picture you feel like posting really. The
site also allows you to see all of your friend’s
thoughts of the day, pictures, or anything really. This site allows us as
people of migration who move to places different from our home (usually) to connect
with people who we may have left behind to pursue our own goals. If it is by
instantly chatting on their Facebook chat platform, or just by enjoying
pictures or posts of our friends that we can “like” (by hitting a button) or
commenting on those posts or pictures. It was an ingenious idea that propelled
social media into whole different realm then it was previously thought to reach
before.
Twitter
is another platform of social media that has gained prominence in recent years,
twitter is similar in a way to the previous platform Facebook, and however this
is a more instant stream of information as well as friends thoughts of the day.
Users “tweet” something but it has to be less than 140 characters, it may be
less characters but this may be a little bit more challenging for some people
because being able to relay your message in fewer words is a skill many people
are continuously developing. Twitter to me is my main source of information
about what’s going on in the world, while you can’t believe everything you read
on there if you look closely you can actually find some very relevant
information from reliable sources that could be a statement, photo, or link to
a different website.
Blogging
is another popular form for communications that occurs in a non-face-to-face
manner, this is done by people going to popular blogging sites and creating a
blog of their choice if they so choose. This is great for people who may go on
trips for a month, or study abroad and they can’t communicate with their loved
ones through phone calls (Jocelyn said she explained to you telephones). The
blogger will post whatever they feel like or whatever subject they want to talk
about. For example, someone takes a trip to a museum with their study abroad
program that they wanted to share with everyone. They would go to their “blog”
and write up a summary of the things he/she did and saw, as well as any
pictures they want to share they may have taken.
The
conclusion I have for you on my present (future to you) is that there is exponential
ways for us as human beings to communicate with each other over vast distances
that are not available to you. I believe
that if you were to find a way to my time, you would find yourself being less
lonely because you can literally make friends from anywhere. You would have the
ability to be in contact with them at any instant and be able to share with
them whatever you feel like, it would literally be all up to you! My final statement
is that the year 2014 is an amazing time in human history because we are the
most technologically advanced we have ever been, information can be shared so
quickly that we as humans are becoming more and more intelligent as we grow. I
hope the best for you in the past (your present) and hope you can find a way to
2014 if that is something that you really want.
All the best to you Anna,
Eric Rausch
