I Want to Be Born in 10 Years

The other day I was sitting with three friends around my age (50-ish) and we got to talking about what we thought the future would like. We all wished we were younger so we'd see more of it. We were born too soon. You don’t hear people say that very often, most folks wax nostalgic for their own youth or some generation before theirs into which they wish they had been born, romanticizing what was.

We four, on the other hand, all want to be around for what will be. We want to be kids today. Or better yet, born 10 or 20 years from now and be techno-babies rather than techno-immigrants. It’s going to a wild time up ahead. They say world knowledge will soon double every 11 days. Mind -boggling.

One of the group said he thinks this rapid accumulating knowledge will fix all the world’s problems from cancer and environmental issues, to long line-ups at airport security and sticking zippers. I am hopeful that he is right, especially about the zippers.

There are going to be some cool things all of which our kids will be exposed to, perhaps invent themselves or be part of. And I believe there will always be more good things than bad things - just as it's always been.

My kids are 10 and 8 and we often talk about what amazing things they may do in the future as a job, pastime, or simply in their day-to-day living. Flying, is always a big one. Curing disease is a topic my daughter is very adamant she will have a hand in. 

Recently we got around to discussing to privacy. I think there will be big dough in ensuring privacy. Clancy, my daughter, suggested maybe she could invent a piece of jewelry or special clothing that emits some sort of scrambling signal so no one could capture your image with a camera unless you want them to. I suggested my son could then develop the camera tech that would work despite his sister's invention and then she could update her gizmo to work against his new camera and so on and so on and they could keep each other in business by being friendly adversaries.

Who knows what lies ahead? I can’t help but wish I were younger and could be part of it. 

Here's some new and cool and 'futuristic' stuff - a 20 year old has invented a gel that stops bleeding and instantly fires up the healing process (and it wasn't the server at a local restaurant last week who didn't know there was such a thing as a soup spoon...for my soup):  Here's the article about the gel