In The Year 2525

When I was young, in High School, I wondered what it would be like in the 21st Century. In 1969, we had already put a man on the moon. That literally rocked me back on my heels seeing Neil Armstrong take that first step on the moon.
What I saw from that point on wasn’t anything I could imagine. Personal Computers, the Internet, Heart Transplants, Credit Cards, Bar Codes, the list goes on and on. Now as I approach 60, I wonder again what the world will be like by the 22nd Century. Will the world even resemble the World we know now? Will the same countries exist? Will there be airplanes, cars, trains, PC’s? Will humans live past 100 years with interchangeable parts? Will there still be war? Terrorists? Will it be like The Jetson’s with George getting in his flying vehicle and buzzing off to work?

We have come so far in the last half century, what we could accomplish boggles my mind.

There are so many problems the World faces. Border disputes, pollution, ozone, overcrowding, soil depletion, what will the World be like in the 23rd Century?
Will we be fed much like the movie Soylent Green? Co-Inhabited by visitors from another planet like Alien Nation? Will we be ruled by One World Government or possibly even rulers from another planet? Will the Earth even survive the 22nd Century?

We have a scant 90 years till the 22nd Century. In the perspective of the Universe, that’s not even a drop in the bucket or blink of an eye. I wonder if my parents took pause to wonder what kind of world they were leaving for me? I wonder if those politicians that run this country wonder what kind of world they are leaving for their own children. From what we can see, politicians care, for themselves. Most are power hungry thugs that treat this country like it’s their own personal gravy train. The politicians that actually do care are overpowered by the miscreants that run this country.

It’s too bad we can’t give politicians the eyes of a child.