What will the future hold? Let us journey to the year 2055 via my mind!

“Sitting at a computer” is as quaint an idea as listening to serials around a credenza-sized radio.  Or staring at a dedicated “television” screen.  Everything is mobile and tactile and implanted. Consequently, people are much more active and fit.

A girl skips rope, a man hangs laundry, arrows point to them saying "Watching a Movie" and "Arguing Online"

The Crazy-Stupid-Huge Array is built on the dark side of the Moon, a boon to astronomy and providing jobs for dozens of post-grads.

Sighing man in space suit labelled "PhD" cleans a satellite dish on the moon.

Genetically engineered fungus breaks down our previously unsustainable trash.  Now controlling the fungus is a problem, but at least the mid-ocean mushroom patch sounds cute!

Cluster of giant mushrooms in the sea, tiny boat in foreground has word balloon 'We're going to need a bigger boat.'

The first floating city above Venus is operational and accepting the first billionaire tourists so they can complain that it’s gone downhill in a few years when ordinary people can go.

Sleek spaceship zips past a gas giant, word balloon: ho hum

Mental implants gently inform you when you engage in bias or prejudice.  People everywhere start being more aware and fair.

Woman on a barstool talks to a man.  A whisper balloon over her: Danger: Revise Joke . She says "..and the mother superior says, 'Great! Let's get tanked!'"

The same implants are very handy for telling you to shut up right before you say something hateful to your spouse.

The Browns win the Superbowl!!  For the tenth time.

Shush.

Anyway, more people will be watching The Cleveland Fusion because women’s sports have finally attracted a wide audience.  So there.

I pose heroically in my football uniform

Oh yeah, and we finally get flying cars.  They are even cooler than we hoped.

A person in an odd graduation-hat-shaped outfit waves to a flying car.

Fashion will be unpredictable and make no sense, same as today.

… I miss reading optimistic future conjectures, so I thought I’d write one.  Merry Christmas!

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