Your future isn't so terrible, page 6

Originally posted by ymunio
The future is not so terrible. I have vivid recollection of my life in Denmark from the 2040's to the 2060's. During that time I was a girl named Eden, as such I didn't understand things on a wide scale. Instead I remember the little things, like my mom's collection of Coldplay videos, or the medoly her car would play before it started the engine, or the uneven concrete that spanned the 3rd and uppermost level of the Oresundbron, or the little yellow pedestrian bridge that traversed a drainage canal just outside an industrial plant known today as Sysav which was the last thing I saw before I died around 2060 as a teenager. Little details like the movie I downloaded that made fun of people from this present era, about a televangelist in the USA who took a poor black man into his home as a show of fake charity, and the clash of personalities that endsued between them.

Anyone can remember future incarnations like this if you choose to. I have very detailed recollections that I've posted on other websites. I don't think anyone really read them. Details about technology and culture and little things like how cars are styled. I don't have any evidence that anyone didn't think I was crazy for what I posted so I don't know why I would post it here. But life is not so terrible. From that life I don't remember stories of any 2012 harvest or world war three. What I do remember was my parents telling me before I was born our economy ground to a halt because tensions in the mid-east caused all shipments of oil/gas to Europe to stop completely for quite some time. BUt in the years after that happened, while I was incarnated as Eden people still drove cars, powered by gasoline. The only difference was that at gas stations you had to fill out government paperwork before you could gas up your car and the cashier was behind bulletproof glass. Since I was too young to drive the motorized tricycle I longed for, there was a train I rode from Coopenhagen to Sweden that was slapped together during the energy crisis but because life had already returned to normal since then I was usually the only one riding the train. It would venture out across the Oresundbron and there would be thick automobile traffic in virtual gridlock on the lower levels below me.

The computer I kept in my room for my dairy was an Apple computer handed down to me by my mom. It was a transparent glass tablet that was touch-sensitive with no keyboard. I would turn it on and in the center would be the Apple logo and application icons would branch out radially from the center. I would touch an icon and it would move to the center and more icons would branch out from it. There was no rectangular viewing screen, documents would appear opaque like paper and my dairy entries were written with a stylus that looked like an asparagus spear (long story, unrelated) This wAs I wrote my handwriting would morph into plain text.

My parents computer was more sophisticated in that you held your face up to a set of viewing goggles and your work area appeared in 3 dimensions around you. Email was mostly all I used their computer for because I could attach expressive animations of my face to convey my mood along with what I wrote.

Take good care of your car if you have a descent one now. Because more of todays cars are around in the 2040's than you might suspect. There are some environmental retrofits you might have to do such as a plastic diaper that wraps around the wheels and undercarriage to trap and contain pollutants that would otherwise wash away into groundwater. Word of advice, don't expect environmentalism to disappear in the next thrity years. Instead expect that some people (like Eden) take it on as religion, with nature churches that study druidism.

Anyone reading this can remember a future life as if it already happened, because incarnation is cyclical and when your mind reaches outside your current lifetime, time is not as linear as you might expect.

Wow ... so midcentury will still be something of a post-1990s state, just like this decade?

I'm not gonna discount your experience, because it very well could be true, but that's certainly not how I envision the mid-21st century.

Interesting read though.

[edit on 19-8-2009 by Donnie Darko]