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.
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.
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!
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.
Mental implants gently inform you when you engage in bias or prejudice. People everywhere start being more aware and fair.
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.
Oh yeah, and we finally get flying cars. They are even cooler than we hoped.
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!
