In imagining New Year’s 100 years hence…my top predictions are as follows:

1. Science, evidence and reason finally eliminate the superstition of religion. Historically mankind has worshiped many gods, yet science slowly brushed them aside (think only of Poseidon who was thought, among other powers, to control tides…until science indicated it was the influence of gravity and the moon). May we finally brush away all others by then.
2. It is realized that “UFOs” are actually observations from our future. We realize this when it is discovered, on a prototype quantum scale, that time travel is possible.
3. Tesla’s vision of freely available power is realized, yet not in how he imagined it by using electricity. A new form of energy is discovered, and with it all existing devices using electricity become instantly obsolete, and the new ones relevant.
4. Wealth distribution is mandated within an experimental nation, so that its bounty is fairly divided, and all infrastructure available to all. Within this framework, jesters, movie “stars”, sports gladiators and others are no longer highly paid; rather, pursuits of knowledge, culture, art, human consciousness, become prominent, not unlike the Herman Hesse Majister Ludi.
5. Human life extension is realized by genetic engineering that manages one’s cellular process. However, this leads to ethical dilemmas, with nations pitted against individuals, as human population becomes exponential. Many decide on pre-euthanasia plans when they compare death with 100 additional years of poverty, boredom, and increasingly haunted memories.

Auld Lang Syne

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