Lauren Broussard
Fictional Writing on Trance

Kalamu ya Salaam’s Trance was extremely different from my usual reads. This story was a very futuristic view of what could happen if a total race and culture was wiped out of history completely. It was real wakeup call to see the process of time travel and underground governments evolving. This allowed the reader to have a more complex view of what our society could or couldn’t do with the role play of “God”. Could we eventually do these things with the continuation of massive technology discoveries?
I think time travel has always been a very outlandish fantasy. Movies such as Back to the Future have made this outlook to several people. That subject is something I for one never see happening. But the thought of an entire culture being wiped out is something that could very well happen. Some people say the south is starting to fade away. Such beautiful places on our coastal shores have been destroyed due to the destruction of continuous hurricanes and floods. Most of the culture and historical landmarks have been wiped out and no longer existing. What happen if this were to continue?
With the continuation of global warming, the eco system is being destroyed and losing its ability to protect us. With this being said, the continuation of naturalistic disasters is being heightened. 2006 ended with 10 named storms (one between Alberto and Beryl that was unnamed during the season and only identified in the post-season analysis). CSU had predicted 17 storms. Accu Weather predicted 6 tropical cyclones (3 major) will strike US coast (none did), with a total number “above average”NHC/NOAA predicted 13-16 named storms (hurricanes and tropical storms), 8-10 of which will become hurricanes, and 4-6 of which will be major hurricanes (category 3 or higher) (www.hurriicane)
When and how do you think the human race will be wiped out? The major things that could currently wipe out the human race would be some nuclear war, or a some type of space rock hitting earth. In about 100 year I think we would have the technology to stop a meteorite from impacting earth. Also be able to establish life on the moon or something if there was a nuclear war. If we could survive for 1000 years the population would be giant maybe in the 100's of billions and spread out over a few planets, then it would be harder for the human race to die out. 100,000 years by now we should have some type of close to speed of light travel, maybe half the speed of light. Then it would be even harder for something to kill the human race. There are theories out there that say that the Big Bang will slow down and start to comeback in on its self in trillions of years. I wonder if in trillions of years what would be going on in the universe and if we would have the technology to stop the big bang saving the universe.
The fact is, we can only hope for the best in all this to happen. We, contrary to our belifs, hope we can see the end of it all but none of us really know the answer. I just hope the way it ends is a quick and clean way of going!