Bulls-eye! 1989 movie "Back to the Future Part II" depicts (invents?) a 60" widescreen, flat-screen TV and correctly hangs it above the mantle nearly 20 years before they were actually invented...
In the spirit of this experiment, I send this message half-a-decade into the future. (Truthfully, I hope to positively litter the digital timestream with notes, showing that cyberspace may not only connect us through space, but also through time.)
First, my greeting: Hello, 2016! This is a year made nearly famous by films such as Back to the Future, Part II – where in 1989 the distant future year 2015 was depicted as a fantastic realm of flying cars, keyless entry, ubiquitous cybernetic implants, widescreen-flatscreen TVs, governmental weather control, 3D movies (without glasses), hoverboards, video calls (Skype?), video eyeglasses, and electronic roofies.
Reading the list five years out, 50% isn’t bad. Do the remaining few years close the gap? If not flying cars, do electric cars break the entry barrier at least? I wonder…
So, what preoccupies me today? Unsurprisingly, it’s space travel. The future of space travel, to be precise. In a move that some may consider pure insanity in the midst of an economic Great Depression, I decided last summer to start a spaceflight consulting firm, which I hope to incorporate and launch in the next few weeks. To that end, I’ve been building a coalition of industry professionals during the last six months who I hope to become private space pioneers with me, and I entered an abstract for one of the company’s services – spacecraft ergonomics – into the Next Generation Suborbital Researcher’s Conference next month. The meeting is only the second meeting of its kind, and one I hope will lead to frenetic networking, and ultimately, clients!
I’ve been working with a design studio, Studio Rayolux under brilliant designer Thad Boss, to develop a brand for the company, which I believe I’m calling “Astrowright Spaceflight Consulting.” We’ll see if it sticks.
So, my question to the future is simply this: Did it work? Did the company get off the ground? Did I get off the ground? Can industries be forged during a time of economic strife and emerge triumphant? Inquiring minds want to know!
Until then, take care, faithful readers. Go for your dreams and never look back!
Cheers,
Ben
January 7, 2011.
January 7, 2011. 5:01pm.
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