Tomorrowland

So, the writing prompt asks, “What’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in twenty years?” Twenty years. That’s a long time. I think it’s pretty optimistic of us to assume we’re still going to have electricity in twenty years. At the rate we’re going, I don’t think we’ll even have any technology to talk about. We’ll be sitting around a campfire trying to remember what Wi-Fi was while the elders tell fantastical stories about streaming movies, GTA, and email. We’ll be trading canned beans like currency and arguing over who gets to hold the last functioning flashlight. The powers that be seem determined to speed-run civilization into the ground, so I’m not making any long-term investments. My retirement plan is basically “hope someone in the cave knows how to start a fire.” But… if society manages to limp along for a little while before everything goes spectacularly sideways, I think I know exactly what technology we’ll have first. Remember the movie Idiocracy? It came out…