“变老滤镜”让我们一窥未来的自己

What would you look like when you are 80 years old？ It seems too far away to imagine， but an app named FaceApp tries to show you.

With the help of an aging filter， the app creates transformations of users faces using various filters and features. The FaceApp aging challenge went viral. Many celebrities like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber shared their wrinkly， grey-haired selfies on social media.

FaceApp helps us stop thinking of things that dont matter and focus on the present. “We view these images as speculative fiction， not realized and therefore unreal，” US author Nicci Gerrard told The New York Times. “We think of our younger selves， because in one sense thats who we are. Our younger stories are still part of us， while our older self doesnt yet exist.”

However， not everyone can laugh at their older selves. For some， aging is terrifying and its hard to accept what the future holds in terms of looks， feelings， and perception. As Metro UK noted， “Its a prophet of doom： FaceApp is making people into a harrowing crisis.”

FaceApp does light up the Internet. It gives us the chance to take a look at our futures and perhaps let us consider how to prepare for it.

80歲的你会是什么样子？这似乎遥远得有些难以想象，但一款名为FaceApp的应用却能让你看到自己的“老年照”。

该应用借助了一款变老滤镜，通过使用各式各样的滤镜效果以及面部特征修改功能，让用户“变脸”。一项利用FaceApp的“变老挑战”走红网络。很多名人像泰勒·斯威夫特、贾斯汀·比伯都在社交媒体上分享了一脸皱纹、满头白发的自拍照。

FaceApp令我们不再考虑无关紧要的事情，而是关注当下。“我们将这些照片视为推测的想象，这一切都尚未发生，因此也并不真实。”美国作家尼西·吉拉德在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，“我们会想到更年轻的自己，因为在某种意义上那便是我们本身。我们年轻时的经历仍然是我们人生的一部分，而年老的那个自己还并不存在。”

然而，不是所有人都乐见变老的自己。对于一些人而言，变老是件很恐怖的事，他们很难接受未来自己的样貌、感受以及认知。正如英国《地铁报》所指出的：“这就是一段末日预言：FaceApp正在令人们经历一场痛苦的危机。”

FaceApp的确引发了全网狂欢。它令我们有机会一窥未来的自己，或许还能令我们开始思考，如何为未来做好准备。

Word Study

speculative /'spekj?l?t?v/ adj. 推测的;推断的

The papers ran speculative stories about the mysterious star.

doom /du?m/ n. 厄运;毁灭

v. 使……注定失败（死亡或遭殃等）

The plan was doomed to failure.