By Futurist Thomas Frey
“Why does anything exist?”
This is one of life’s greatest unanswerable questions. Not only is it unanswerable—it’s unknowable. If you’re a person of faith, it will likely bolster your faith. If you’re a person of science, it will likely bolster your need for more evidence. No matter your background, sooner or later you are bound to question one “what if…” after another after another.
I’ve spent decades thinking about the future—what’s coming, what’s possible, what technologies will transform society. But occasionally I step back and face this fundamental question that makes all futurism seem trivial:
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Not how did things begin—but why does existence itself exist? Why is there a stage for any of this to happen on at all?
The question breaks every framework we have for understanding reality.
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