Toys

By Àlex Santomà

Toys. Everybody has played with toys in his childhood: rich, poor, Chinese, African, European people... In short: everyone. Toys were part of us when we were young: playmobils, action man, scalextrix, nancy... All of us has had, at least, more than one toy in his house. But, are the same the toys of the past than today toys? No. Before, the toys were only a doll, a car, a simple piece of wood, or a stone.. You could spend all the day with one doll inside of one car, or with a piece of woof, imagining that that was a sword, and you imagined that "invisible enemies" were around you. You didn't need to plug in the toys, and you could bring them anywhere. You had fun always everywhere anytime with anybody. Nowadays, the toys are all electric, like radio-controlled cars, electric-dolls..., and in some toys you need a CD to play, like PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo..., but, are these new toys funnier? No, before you should spend days playing the same thing, but now you get tired of the toy in a few days. Nowadays, the toys do all, you don't imagine and you can't do anything, because for one game, there is one toy. Before, with one toy you could play hundreds of games, and the toys were a little bit of the fun, and the imagination was all the part of the fun. Now, the toys put all the imagination, and you don't have to do anything.

FUTURE, a big question

By Nicolás Ordax

How do we imagine future? How will we move? How will we live? Everyone makes himself these questions.

Personally, I think that people in the future will be more ecological. I think people will recycle more and pollute less. Today, for example, people drive petrol cars and doesn't recycle much. In the future, cars will be electrical and people will recycle more every day. So, I think environement won't be so affected like it's today.

One point about I'm not so optimistic is the third world. Unfortunately, I think that people will stay egoistic and won't help the needed people, but I hope I'm wrong.

My vision of the future is a global net of everything: information, passengers, goods...much more evolved than now. Everyone will be able to travel everywhere, to buy things which are produced on the other side of the world, get the news exactly when they happen and much other things. This will improve living conditions because we'll have much more choices in our lives.

Technology will improve a lot from nowadays. In my opinion, we'll be able to live on the moon or create sophisticated robots which will work in factories or on the farms. So they will ease a lot our lives. There won't be need to work, because all will be done for us.

On the other side, it might be that in the future, humanity doesn't evolve; or that it gets back; or a lot of other options. The only certain thing is that we don't know what will happen.