Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation.
…progress of science and technology.
If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn.
-In this way us shortening creatures will be able to travel enormous distances.
-Well because it seems fairly certain that at least at this moment in time there are no other intelligent creatures in our own solar system we’d have to go out to the stars to meet them. The first contact with intelligent extraterrestrials will be the greatest adventure in the future of man, it may not happen for centuries but one day it will come.
-And as you know human beings are almost infinitely adaptable look at the incredible changes we’ve experienced and survived from the Stone Age to the present time and yet even greater changes are still to come.
-But what about the city of The Day After Tomorrow say the year 2000?
-I think it will be completely different in fact it may not even exist at all.
You’re awake. Your vitals are stabilizing nicely. Consciousness came through fully intact. It’s always disorientating the first time. Nothing you can’t handle I’m sure. Right. Since your not going anywhere just yet, let me show you a part of your new life.