There’s a reason why time machines are a really bad idea. Oh sure, it’s kitchy to imagine yourself as a modern day Marty McFly. But have you ever stopped to consider how ridiculous the future looks? Just for a moment, imagine telling someone in 2000 what history would look like in 2020. Here are ten items off the top of my head . . . .
- Liam Neeson will be known as an action movie star
- The Twin Towers will have been gone almost twenty years
- Phones go mobile and people can literally do everything on them
- Movie theaters are still a thing. Blockbuster is not
- Tom Brady (who?) and the New England Patriots (what?) were the greatest dynasty in the history of American sports
- A pandemic will thrust the entire world into lock down
- The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs are no longer title punchlines
- Donald Trump will be President
- Social media addiction is a thing
- No one gets lost thanks to GPS, no one goes on a ‘blind date’ thanks to Tinder and everyone remembers your birthday thanks to Facebook
The moral of the story is to remain in the present, because the future is much too crazy a thing to contemplate.
Can’t even predict the bizarreness of what is ahead!!
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I know, right?
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B,
Yep. Who’d a thunk? And you only went ahead by twenty years!
Too many things have lost all meaning thanks to this new easy. People remember your birthday? No. You don’t mean more coz you got lots of wishes. Blind date? No. Only thing that’s a surprise is if they actually put their own photo and their true stats. Getting lost? While it sucks to get lost, we’ve lost that connection of stopping to ask for directions and being told to turn left at the pink house, go through one stop, when you see the lilac tree, take the lane…
I think I’m good with the lack of desire to time travel myself. I think I’d like to explore the road less travelled…
And George. You know that’s always a hit with me.
Q
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Birthday Girl,
To go ahead any more than twenty years would’ve required me to take a week long nap first, LOL.
These meanings have been retrofitted and I don’t think it’s entirely a bad thing. Birthday wishes in any shape or form are a good thing, :). And no more blind dates? Another not so bad idea whose time has come. As far as the asking for directions . . . I never did figure out how that was supposed to work.
Time traveling only works if it’s with Doc from Back to the Future. He usually got Marty back in time.
But of COURSE I had to have a tune in celebrating your twenty ninth!
B
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It woulda been exhausting, no doubt.
No. Not entirely a bad thing. Nothing like birthday wishes from all over to give you a li’l boost – even if you only hear from these peeps once a year 😉 The blind date is thankfully a thing in my past – definitely will not make its appearance in my future either. You are one of those, eh? Gonna drive in circles rather than ask? LOL.
This is true. And since Doc ain’t travelling no mo’, guess we won’t either.
You are such a sweetie to think of me in such a sweet and subtle way…
MWAH!!
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Sho nuff.
Better than n-once a year. I know, that’s not a real world. Until right now. Yanno, I don’t think I ever went on a . . . never mind. I have. Yeah, no. Those things are ovah.
I DID drive in circles, and squares and sometimes rectangles.
Nuance bebe. For nows anyway.
MUAH!!
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Indeed.
This is absolutely true. I think it’s kinda nice that they take the time anyway. Uh huh… right. Those days are gone and done 😉
You DID… so now, oh right. You don’t have to, GPS…
Nuance. I’ll take the for nows…
MWAH!
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It is nice, not kinda. And I’m a cranky old bastid . . . so for me to say it, that’s something.
Ha. Ha.
Nuance is good for the nows. And well, yanno . . .
MUAH!!!!
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Then it means all the more 😉
Uh huh.. LOL!
It has to be. And well… Inno…
MWAH!!!
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More. Always more. 😉
Mmm Hmm. That’s what I say when I’m not saying Uh Huh.
Don’t say it! LOL
MUAH!!
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More is good.
Y——–
K.
MWAH!! 😘
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You are a clever and cheeky monkey
Good thing it’s your birthday or I wouldn’t let you off so easy . . . 😉
MUAH!! 😘😘
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I can be… heard tell there are folks who like ’em cheeky.
Umm… what else do I have to do? 😇
MWAH!! 😘😘
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Your heard-tell-ometer is in tip top shape, tell you what. And don’t you worry, you done did it already.
MUAH!!!😘😘
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It’s been kept finely tuned. I done did, didn’t I?
MWAH!!! 😘😘
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I can see that.
You did. Done. Done did that.
MUAH!!!
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Gotta keep my game up when dealing with certain peeps.
Uh huh 😉
MWAH!
😘😘😘😘
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Your game is razor sharp.
Hey! That’s my line. 😉
MUAH!!!!
😗😗😗😗
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It pays to keep it so 😉
Is it? 😀
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No problems there. 😉
Serious.
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Good 😉
Um… k. My bad. 😉
😗😗😗😗
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MUAH!
😗😗😗😗
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MWAH!
😗😗😗😗
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Omg that’s scary when you think about it
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LA, what’s truly bizarre is to kinda separate from the reality of present day and imagine myself as a time tourist. Ca-razy!
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🤪
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Truth really is stranger than fiction
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I love your last line! It’s so true!
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Truth really is strange stuff, isn’t it?
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Dear Marco,
Going back farther than 2000…I’ve been binge watching Star Trek TNG and DS9. Back when those were made talking to someone on a screen instead of a phone was way off in the future. When I watch them carrying around their electronic tablets…well, can you say iPad? iPhone? (And I’m the first to admit I enjoy technology.) However, I have gotten lost despite GPS and most of them don’t recognize our crazy home address. I am living in the Sci Fi of my youth. It’s still fun to look back on what writers thought the future would look like. Still no air cars and I’m still waiting for Rosey to come and clean my house. No singing the body electric quite yet.
I’m looking forward to this pandemic being a thing of the past. I am thankful for technology that has me keeping in touch with friends in Sweden, New Zealand, Philly and Boucherville. 😉 Nope, you really can’t make this stuff up.
Shalom and continued good health,
Rochelle
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Rochelle,
Star Trek was the source of many future inventions, one of the oldest being sliding doors. I read how, on the 60’s series, they had a couple peeps manually opening and closing the door.
Technology is good. Overuse and abuse became the gray and dark areas which just need to be in the forefront of our minds. Always.
Shalom, peace, binge watching, skyping and most important of all . . good health.
Marco
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There is good reason to stay in the moment. I think we are finally getting a dose of what it will be like if we don’t pay attention to what really matters. Excellent post, Marc. Thanks.
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You could not be more right about that, John. We need to stay ahead of the curve that involves doing right by humanity and the cosmic crib we call home. Lest we be flattened one day.
Thank you, thank you very much!
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The idea of flattened brings a smile. (Don’t ask me why it just does.)
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It reminds me of pancakes. Then again, most anything can remind me of pancakes. I just really love pancakes.
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That is a good thing.
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Fo sho
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fo shizzle. (Man remember that?)
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Remember it? I still use it.
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Hahahahaha.
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I’m laughing and speechless … so well done!
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Plucked from the file “The truth is a strange thing”
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Good point(s)!
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Who would have imagined? Thanks RW.
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Someone posted an article about Haley’s comet in 1910 and how everyone feared for the terrible things it would do. I wondered what sort of beliefs we hold today that will seem ridiculous in the future. That future is utterly imponderable. I’ll stick with now and just see when it gets here.
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Yeah I’d rather stick to this ridiculousness than venture into whatever future ridiculousness awaits. Good call.
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Apart from some of the more outrageous happenings (I’ll let you pick which ones were the worst), the speed at which things have occured over my lifetime continues to stun me. Some of them make me feel old, others make me feel depressed.
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I feel you on both counts. And as for the events listed, I find most of them to be crazy. Vegas wouldn’t have taken the bets.
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You can say that again! Nobody in their right mind would have taken those odds.
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And with good reason. I mean . . who would have dared utter most of this stuff? Without fear of being locked up, I mean?
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No kidding. Each one is unfathomable. Some more than others.
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If I had a time machine that could take me back in time, I would have one request. Leave me there.
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Where’s Doctor Who when you need the Tardis Box?
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Amen sister.
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Couldn’t you have at least used the word “cheat” somewhere in that statement about the Patriots? Sheesh.
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Wha? The Patriots . . . they . . they cheated? I thought that whole idea was . . . tucked away.
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No, no, no … it was deflated. Although I’ve heard they have it on video.
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Bahahaha!
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Like it. Short and to the point. Cheers!
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Salud my man. Hope you’re well.
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Yeah, thanks man. Hope you are too.
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Indeed. 🙂
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This blew me away. It’s rather stunning. The Twin Towers, an Epidemic and Donald Trump, the trifecta of WTF.
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A trifecta of WTF. That says it all, doesn’t it? And say you were delivered back to January 1st of 2000 and you went around telling peeps this is what things were going to look like twenty years hence. They would be fitting you for a special jacket.
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It’s a lesson alright. My jacket would be Tweed by the way so when they took me away, I’d look my best.
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Leave it to you to bring style to an otherwise drab fashion choice. I knew I could count on you.
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You’ll be in a nice armless blazer. With a pocket scarf.
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You’re my fashion go to person from here on in.
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On it! Even the craziest imaginations couldn’t have thought this stuff up for sure. We were still living off of Prince’s 1999 and loving that we all lived past midnight. Some of those are just … man …
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I know, right? It’s like that 1999 song possessed all kinds of subliminal messages.
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