Nicolas B’s Reviews > But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past > Status Update

The book is mostly about how little the common person actually knows, as well as how nobody can can truly predict anything that will happen in our future. the author talks about how unlikely it is that anyone commonly known now, such as the Kardashians, will be recognized in 100 years. Just by looking at the past, we see that nobody expected our era to become the way it is now, so why should our future be different?

I chose this book because I saw the author being interviewed about it and it interested me. I had been in Florida for a baseball tournament, and was watching Comedy Central in our hotel room when they introduced Chuck Klausterman and began asking him about the book. I was currently out of books, so I bought it and it immediately fascinated me. The book is about the past and the future of our society.

My book is realistic because it talks about our cultures future. Currently it is about what we perceive as facts regarding science, and how we "know" that we're right about everything we discovered. He compared our era to Aristotles, where people thought that gravity was all matters basic "want" to stay connected to the ground. Everyone accepted it as fact until proven wrong, so what's different from our time?

It was specifically talking about the current marketing war between EDM and hip-hop music, and how neither are likely to be of great importance. The author also talked about how The Rolling Stones are very likely to be the artist that defines rock, and even about the possibility that the music from our whole era will just be known as rock.

The entire idea of the book is describing how we have no idea what will be socially acceptable in the future, and how we cannot even begin to imagine what our era will be remembered for in the distant future. Currently the author is talking about the the music of our time, what affects which artists will be remembered in the future, and even how certain genres could be completely forgotten.