In the future, we will have magnetically levitating trains that glide, swiftly and silently, above the treetops like in The Hunger Games. When you get to the station, you will have a silent, computer driven taxibus to take you to your destination.
In the future, everyone will have a nice, comfortable home with all of the modern conveniences. Rich people will still have mansions, of course, but even the poorest of the poor will have an address, a place to sleep and take a shower, and from which they can relate to the world.
In the future, the water will be completely free of pollutants. It will be available anywhere in the world, and we will have drinking fountains again.
In the future, the air will be clean and the views spectacular.
In the future, there will be an abundance of food. Fruit from the tropics in hundreds of varieties, oranges, lemons and grapefruits from the subtropics, olives, figs and dates from the hot but dry climates, and apples, pears, cherries, peaches and maple syrup from the more northerly wooded lands. Vegetables pouring out of the greenhouses. Grains from the plains.
In the future, marijuana will be plentiful, hemp products will be plentiful, and tobacco will be a fading memory.
In the future, all children will go to school in modern, high tech classrooms. The great scientists and inventors will come from all regions and all races. We have 7 billion people on the planet. That means 70 million geniuses, on average, but many of them today are starving to death or living in countries where their major goal in live is not to have a bomb dropped on their head. If we can harness that potential, we will see a wave of invention like we have never seen before.
In the future, we will have universal free health care including gym memberships and the occasional massage. Most diseases will have been cured, artificial body parts will be manufactured (or printed), and people will live to be 200.
I am totally convinced this will happen. Because we already have the resources to make it happen. We have the technology to make it happen (well, that last one might be a bit of a stretch, but it’s coming). And we have the manpower to make it happen.
All that’s needed to actually make it happen is just for us to be a little bit smarter.
