PERSONAL SPEECH
THE FUTURE
Speech type: topical speech
The future
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Good morning, ladies, and gentlemen.
Can you tell me what it is ? (show phone) A smart phone, but if we travel back to 100 years before , pick a random person and ask him, what is this. What would be the answer? A magic gadget ? or some kind of sorcery or perhaps a spying tool of the soviet union ! But to me this is future. What is future? I believe many of us use to said “ I want to be a doctor in the future!” Is that the only future that we concern? I know this is a weird question, so let me tell you a story .
Few years back during my form 6 period, one day I was doing my revision for physics in the library , a teacher , Mr. Lee walk by and sit next to me and ask me a question,
He says : “ Boy ah, what are you doing”
I said “ Sir I’m studying for my future”
“Do you know who will you become in the future”
I said “No”
“ Then why are you sure that studying this book can help your future?”
IN THAT MOMENT Ladies and gentlemen , how will you react?
My external reaction was “ hmmm , I’m not sure sir”, but my internal reaction was “WHAT ? I’m studying for a difficult examination tomorrow and you come to disturb me asking about my future!”
But looking back to what he asks, this is a interesting question, if we are unsure of the future then why are we doing what we are doing now?
Is it because Mr. Somebody tell us to? Is it because some big business guy said that in a forum? Or because horoscope says so?
We are lost because we had never imagine and think about the future. Don’t get me wrong , I didn’t mean your career after your graduation , or your life 30 years after, the future that I mean is the next century, the 22nd century.
Let me tell you why we should start thinking about the future.
Firstly, lets travel back to the history, shall we? Do you know that airplanes, radio, penicillin (we call it Panadol), or even computers were all invented during the past century? Just within 30 years during the world war period. The humanity technology level shot up within a short period. After the world war, during the cold war period, from 1945 to 1991 which the United States competing against the Soviet Union (currently Russia) in many areas. People invented portable cameras, internet, nuclear power. EVEN! People started to build rockets that send we human to the outer space! Until today see what happened. Within a century form the invention of huge cameras, computers, music players, typewriters, radar, compass, calculators, all are being compacted into this single device called smart phone. My friend these all happens only within 50 years, half a century. The trend of technology development and all the innovations, new ideas, new creations are unstoppable! The next techno wave is on the way, the only way we can do to grab hold this opportunity, is to start thinking and imagining the future. Then work on it. If you think the future should have flying cars, go study about it and work it out. If you think people in future should have no worries about food, then go study and work it out. These are what great thing was invented in the history and grow sustainably.
Next, let’s continue about sustainability. What are the companies that appears in our mind when we talk about sustainability? Apple, Facebook (Now Meta), Google, Microsoft, all these gigantic companies. The question is why are they sustainable? Let’s do some case studies. For example, Apple. Being one of the richest companies in the world, what determined their success? Leading technology, Innovation and their sight is never only the future 5 years or 10 years. What is in their eyes, are the next generation of technology, the next techno-wave or even 50 years later. While we are planning to cope with the following week or month, they have been planning on how to create a something that brings human into a more advanced world. Like year 2007, as Steve jobs announced the first iPhone, the everything has changed, our culture, our habit, education modes, economy, or even social media. They far see the future and be super ambitious to create one of their own version YET they had never ignored every minor thing. Not even the plating of a tiny screw can be compromised. They keen on every detail of what they are doing. Inspiring, are they? But can we? Be ambitious enough to make a dream real, and focus on making every minor details right, that is the simplest way to create sustainability.
Lastly, we have look through the past and the future, its time to go within ourselves? How do we relate the experience from the past and dreams of the future with ourselves? IN fact, being in this age , we are actually at a junction, one side is to live under expectations and follow what everyone is doing , another one , live by our own means, ignore the rules and grow in our own way. By picking each way , will definitely going to change our life . Let me share with you a story, again, it’s about Steve Jobs. I love reading his biography, Steve was not an engineer, not an artist and not even a business graduate. But let’s see what he has built now. The world most successful company creating the best products with the fusion world leading technology and humanity art. He was born in the 1900s but has created a future for the 2000s. It was never an easy task for a perfectionist that has trouble in controlling his emotions and temper, being threw away from his company by his company, built another two, one success one failed, being invited back to his company to clear hundred million of lost by those who expelled him, and bring the company back to glory, while he was at his peak years, he left us. If we were him, how many of us would have give up after being threw away from our company? He had never given up, yet he was all the time improving and keep challenging impossibilities. If you would have read his book, you will found that he has competed so much impossible stuffs, not to mention here because I hope this would make you read his book. Creating a future for the next century is tightly linked to personal growth. What we are in the future depend on how we choose to grow ourselves, in fact there has no right or wrong in creating our own version of future. But the biggest mistake is that when we decided to give up when someone tell us to.
Before we end, Ladies and gentlemen , start thinking for the future century was never for the purpose of creating a future that we could enjoy within it. It’s about enjoying the process of creating a something remarkable. This would inspire us into be innovative and creative. Then one day, we will start realizing that “oh, I must start to improve myself today, I must start learning something so I can create a better world for the future people.” Shape ourselves into a diamond , shine for our life and shine for the future. The future is coming , the game has stared, and are you ready?
Thank you.
Can you tell me what it is ? (show phone) A smart phone, but if we travel back to 100 years before , pick a random person and ask him, what is this. What would be the answer? A magic gadget ? or some kind of sorcery or perhaps a spying tool of the soviet union ! But to me this is future. What is future? I believe many of us use to said “ I want to be a doctor in the future!” Is that the only future that we concern? I know this is a weird question, so let me tell you a story .
Few years back during my form 6 period, one day I was doing my revision for physics in the library , a teacher , Mr. Lee walk by and sit next to me and ask me a question,
He says : “ Boy ah, what are you doing”
I said “ Sir I’m studying for my future”
“Do you know who will you become in the future”
I said “No”
“ Then why are you sure that studying this book can help your future?”
IN THAT MOMENT Ladies and gentlemen , how will you react?
My external reaction was “ hmmm , I’m not sure sir”, but my internal reaction was “WHAT ? I’m studying for a difficult examination tomorrow and you come to disturb me asking about my future!”
But looking back to what he asks, this is a interesting question, if we are unsure of the future then why are we doing what we are doing now?
Is it because Mr. Somebody tell us to? Is it because some big business guy said that in a forum? Or because horoscope says so?
We are lost because we had never imagine and think about the future. Don’t get me wrong , I didn’t mean your career after your graduation , or your life 30 years after, the future that I mean is the next century, the 22nd century.
Let me tell you why we should start thinking about the future.
Firstly, lets travel back to the history, shall we? Do you know that airplanes, radio, penicillin (we call it Panadol), or even computers were all invented during the past century? Just within 30 years during the world war period. The humanity technology level shot up within a short period. After the world war, during the cold war period, from 1945 to 1991 which the United States competing against the Soviet Union (currently Russia) in many areas. People invented portable cameras, internet, nuclear power. EVEN! People started to build rockets that send we human to the outer space! Until today see what happened. Within a century form the invention of huge cameras, computers, music players, typewriters, radar, compass, calculators, all are being compacted into this single device called smart phone. My friend these all happens only within 50 years, half a century. The trend of technology development and all the innovations, new ideas, new creations are unstoppable! The next techno wave is on the way, the only way we can do to grab hold this opportunity, is to start thinking and imagining the future. Then work on it. If you think the future should have flying cars, go study about it and work it out. If you think people in future should have no worries about food, then go study and work it out. These are what great thing was invented in the history and grow sustainably.
Next, let’s continue about sustainability. What are the companies that appears in our mind when we talk about sustainability? Apple, Facebook (Now Meta), Google, Microsoft, all these gigantic companies. The question is why are they sustainable? Let’s do some case studies. For example, Apple. Being one of the richest companies in the world, what determined their success? Leading technology, Innovation and their sight is never only the future 5 years or 10 years. What is in their eyes, are the next generation of technology, the next techno-wave or even 50 years later. While we are planning to cope with the following week or month, they have been planning on how to create a something that brings human into a more advanced world. Like year 2007, as Steve jobs announced the first iPhone, the everything has changed, our culture, our habit, education modes, economy, or even social media. They far see the future and be super ambitious to create one of their own version YET they had never ignored every minor thing. Not even the plating of a tiny screw can be compromised. They keen on every detail of what they are doing. Inspiring, are they? But can we? Be ambitious enough to make a dream real, and focus on making every minor details right, that is the simplest way to create sustainability.
Lastly, we have look through the past and the future, its time to go within ourselves? How do we relate the experience from the past and dreams of the future with ourselves? IN fact, being in this age , we are actually at a junction, one side is to live under expectations and follow what everyone is doing , another one , live by our own means, ignore the rules and grow in our own way. By picking each way , will definitely going to change our life . Let me share with you a story, again, it’s about Steve Jobs. I love reading his biography, Steve was not an engineer, not an artist and not even a business graduate. But let’s see what he has built now. The world most successful company creating the best products with the fusion world leading technology and humanity art. He was born in the 1900s but has created a future for the 2000s. It was never an easy task for a perfectionist that has trouble in controlling his emotions and temper, being threw away from his company by his company, built another two, one success one failed, being invited back to his company to clear hundred million of lost by those who expelled him, and bring the company back to glory, while he was at his peak years, he left us. If we were him, how many of us would have give up after being threw away from our company? He had never given up, yet he was all the time improving and keep challenging impossibilities. If you would have read his book, you will found that he has competed so much impossible stuffs, not to mention here because I hope this would make you read his book. Creating a future for the next century is tightly linked to personal growth. What we are in the future depend on how we choose to grow ourselves, in fact there has no right or wrong in creating our own version of future. But the biggest mistake is that when we decided to give up when someone tell us to.
Before we end, Ladies and gentlemen , start thinking for the future century was never for the purpose of creating a future that we could enjoy within it. It’s about enjoying the process of creating a something remarkable. This would inspire us into be innovative and creative. Then one day, we will start realizing that “oh, I must start to improve myself today, I must start learning something so I can create a better world for the future people.” Shape ourselves into a diamond , shine for our life and shine for the future. The future is coming , the game has stared, and are you ready?
Thank you.