Human’s have the tendency to think they can predict the future, it happens in everything and everyone. We often neglect to account for two valuable variables when discussing current events. Time and change, two things that no one can viably predict for the future. Thinking about this year especially, we are winding down to the year anniversary of quarantine and the first weeks of the pandemic. A year ago this in November we were a year from the election, no one knew the pandemic would occur and the world seemed normal. I state this in order to highlight how much time can induce change, and when we look further down the line from 4 years from now to 50 to 100, predicting what the world will be like and what are history will be written down as is an inexact science. So in 4 years what will I and the majority of Americans believe t0 have occurred in 2020? I think in 4 years we will see the effects of a Joe Biden Presidency, and what i hope is that the country is more unified in it’s stance on the economy and racial justice. In 50 years i hope that history looks back at 2020 as a wake up call, and is the year that caused a massive societal shift in progressing human civilization forward, hopefully we will not experience another pandemic in 50 years but i believe if we had to 2020 would be the experience the world drawls on in order to combat whatever disease plagues humanity. looking forward 100 years, you start to get into uncharted waters, we have no real clear idea on where the world will be in 100 years. Just thinking back to 1920, we still had world war 2, going to the moon, and the cold war that all happened within 100 years or less. So predicting the future is inexact, but in 100 years we will probably have to face another pandemic, and how the world records today’s history is going to go a long way in helping humans 100 years from now deal with the inevitability of a new pandemic.