2087

I was playing a game called "BrainWars" on my Google Nexus. It is a game in which you compete with another player, to see who can finish these mini-games fastest. At the end of the three rounds, you get a score. My score for this game was 2087.

2087. The thought came to me that 2087 will be a year, and that it may be a year in my lifetime. I may live to the year 2087. That stretched my mind to think about. I'll be 95 years old.

Most people have a target retirement date, or a year that they plan to get married, pay off their house, or go on a cruise. My target date for life is 2087; if I can make it that far, then I will win.

Imagine the year 2087. By that time, humans will have solved so many problems. We'll have limitless energy from fusion, probably no more world hunger, and outward expansion. I read an Asimov short story in which humanity had not only created colonies on the lunar surface, but also gone far beneath the ocean to found a colony there. In the story, a lunar representative goes down to Ocean-Deep, the water colony, but gets the idea in his head that he has to destroy the colony and kill everyone so that his colony on the moon will get all the funds from the government.

Hopefully that won't happen. I just get excited picturing the different luxuries and new abilities and tech we will have. The cars from sci-fi movies like I, Robot, get me thinking about the design and fashion side of it. Way different. People probably won't wear nice suit coats to work. I hope we all wear leather jackets.

What will the architecture be like? Even more massive sky scrapers. I remember I read an article about four or five years ago that talked about how a Japanese firm was planning on creating a massive, earth-quake resistant vertical city. It was planned to have levels for shopping malls, gyms, parks, track-fields, and residences.

Transportation will be faster and cheaper. Technology will be cheaper than water. Water will probably be purified from the oceans and distributed to coastal cities. It's already being done in a few places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Saudi_Arabia. The water shortage and food shortage in poorer regions will be a thing of the past.

No cancer. No AIDS. No disease. Healthier genetics. Perhaps we will find a way to genetically modify ourselves to resist all lethal disease.

Implanted chips that retain information within our minds. We can scan things with a certain eye movement or thought, thereby downloading the data onto the flash-drive in our brain.

What really makes me think are the possibilities that I cannot even fathom. Things that I haven't heard about, but that some other person's mind will invent. The present technologies would seem like absolutely inconceivable magic to those who had only chariots and spears and starvation to look forward to. The future has and will continue to create a Pax Technologica.

2087. That's the year I will die happy.