In case you have yet to be told, let me be the first to enlighten you.
Welcome to the Future!
Though it may be hard to believe for younger generations, the world wasn’t always the way it is now. You couldn’t always text your friends whenever you wanted to hang out. You couldn’t always watch your favorite television show on a long car ride. And you most certainly couldn’t always live in such a way where everyone was an equal. Focusing on this, Brad Paisley created a music video for his song “Welcome to the Future”. The video, found below, focuses on the idea of innovation and gives multiple examples of then versus now.
Many of his examples refer to
technological and communication advancements that have created a more fun and
smaller world to live in. He shows things such as robotics and prosthetics in
order to show people that many “futuristic” ideas are happening now. For example, he sings "I'd have given anything to have my own Pacman game at home. I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade but now I've got it on my phone." The below pictures are visual examples he used in the video to emphasis such changes and innovations that have taken place. The first photo is of a younger boy playing a Pacman game at his house emphasizing how unrealistic having the game at your house was and the second photo shows Brad Paisley demonstrating having the Pacman game on his phone to play. By reminding people of how things used to be, he brings into hindsight the changes that have happened over the years giving rise to the song's name "Welcome to the Future".
In addition, Brad Paisley uses examples of children saying what they want to be in the future to show viewers that the world is not done changing. Because it is known that children are the innovators of the future, the video is using these children to show that the world is going to continue to change. They are showing that innovation and specific goals such as becoming doctors, feeding the world, and beating cancer are going to help push the world to a better tomorrow. With this, innovation has become the driving force into the future.
So in reality...
So in reality...
I like the way the video show's the changes from his days as a kid to our time, but it'd be interesting if he took it a step further and discussed the acceleration of innovation. I difference showed in this video is drastic to say the least, but it will be even more interesting in the future to compare the changes that took place in his time to the changes that will take place in our time and see how rapidly innovation is changing our society.
ReplyDeleteIt's also interesting to note that Paisley doesn't seem to have any sense of nostalgia for the way it used to be but rather is excited about the direction things are going and puts the spotlight on the children to point out that they are going to be the one's to take us even farther, to change our world into their world, and he seems excited for that.