Time Capsule (November 2010)

Hello there to all members reading this on November 2010.

Also, hello there to all members reading this on November 2020.

I really think this could be very fun and interesting thread.

Since threads are saved anyway, the plan is to use this thread as a time capsule - we'll post our thoughts and then forget about this thread until November 2020, when it will be opened to see how things have changed and whether we were right or wrong with our predictions of the future.

Of course, hoping we'll still be alive 10 years from now. And hoping GangsterBB will still be alive.

The plan is to say something, anything, about what's going on in your head right now, what are your thoughts at this point in your life, things that bother you or make you happy, what events around the world concern you at this point, talk about politics, sports, movies, anything you want.

The second part of the post is your predictions of the world, or your life, in exactly 10 years from now.


What will change?

What will be lost in 10 years?

What new things will enter our lives during the next 10 years?


I'll start:


-------------

November 2010: Life feels pretty much like it has been the past 10 years. I still have no money, no place to call home, no wife or kids, no car. But I've got my bike, my friends, my CD collection, and my good spirit. Looking at the big picture, I'd say the world feels pretty much the same, too. Sure the internet keeps inventing itself, new cellphones coming out everyday, but all that aside....Obama is losing his power, Palin still dreaming she'll be president, The Giants justified their name in the World Series, and the most hated basketball team in history, Miami HEAT, is having a good start.

In November 2020, I think.... the world will still be pretty much the same. Well technology-wise, of course things will be different. Internet speed will be max for everyone, perhaps? oh maybe nanotechonology will be going strong. Politics-wise, I guess Iran will have their nuclear bombs. But I don't think they'll use them as long as Israel still got theirs. Speaking of Israel, I don't think they'll be peace in the middle east, however I think the Palestinians will have their own country 10 years from now. I think the USA will have a female president, not Palin tho. Personally, I hope to be back in Chicago. And of course, the most important thing : the Cubs will win the WS.

I suppose we'll have hundreds of 3D movies by the time we reach 2020.

I can't think of anything that will leave us....maybe CD's, but my guess is they'll still be around somehow.


---------


Anyway, that's my bla-bla. Go on and post yours. It will be so much fun to read it in 2020!!

The Beatles will still be the greatest band ever in 2020 FACT.....

Right now I'm sitting under the stairs on a desktop that's well on its way to death, though I continue to get the best out of it by blowing into the opening at the back where the fan is every time it cuts out. I just applied for a Masters degree, having returned from a trip to London the other week largely uninspired with regard to previous thoughts about moving there. I'm happy to stay around here for a while, in the north. I love learning, I love life; I miss Aroon, but don't think I'll send her a Christmas card, and I don't think I'll tell Steve after all that we fucked one last time after they got together because I feel like crying for him at the thought of his confusion and outrage upon reading my message, even though I don't particularly care for him and he possibly did it to me. Trotsky's the man.

November 4, 2020: I just walked 5 miles on the beach. It is very serene. The Atlantic City skyline is much lower than in 2010. The Taliban bombing of 2015 leveled many of the casinos and now the senior citizen apartment complexes have replaced them. I'm going to return to my room and watch "Godfather IV, the President". Peace to all.

No matter what the date, the most important thing to remember is that life is a gift. Every day is the most lovely present to unwrap. Nobody has promised you tomorrow, so live each day as if it's your last.

Tres gentil!

Mick, I love how in-the-moment yours is...the kind that truly would be intriguing to read in ten years.

SB, so very true, and something I always try to keep in mind.

Fame, a clever idea indeed! Have you ever heard of this site: FutureMe?
You can send an email and set a time for it to be emailed to yourself, kind of like this time capsule idea, where you can then read your thoughts much later. I'm kind of impatient, but I tried a few messages that came back about a month later, and I purposely wrote specific stuff about the day that I probably wouldn't have recalled otherwise, and it was fun to see what had happened.

I'm gonna have to think a bit about what to post for the 2020 Gina to read, though...

Interesting, Fame! I'll have to give some thought to it as well. Altho, knowing me, come 2020 I'll be pissed off that I never did post again to this thread.

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway-
I saw the Empire State laid low.
And life went on beyond the Palisades,
They all bought Cadillacs-
And left there long ago.

We held a concert out in Brooklyn-
To watch the Island bridges blow.
They turned our power down,
And drove us underground-
But we went right on with the show...

I've seen the lights go out on Broadway-
I saw the ruins at my feet,
You know we almost didn't notice it-
We'd see it all the time on Forty-Second Street.

They burned the churches up in Harlem-
Like in that Spanish Civil War-
The flames were everywhere,
But no one really cared-
It always burned up there before...

I've seen the lights go down on Broadway-
I watched the mighty skyline fall.
The boats were waiting at the Battery,
The union went on strike-
They never sailed at all.

They sent a carrier out from Norfolk-
And picked the Yankees up for free.
They said that Queens could stay,
They blew the Bronx away-
And sank Manhattan out at sea....

You know those lights were bright on Broadway-
But that was so many years ago...
Before we all lived here in Florida-
Before the Mafia took over Mexico.
There are not many who remember-
They say a handful still survive...
To tell the world about...
The way the lights went out,
And keep the memory alive....

(thanks to Billy Joel - from "Miami 2017")

I threw away all my cassettes and most of my CDs last year and also most of my DVDs this year. I suppose by then I'd be throwing away all my Tera byte hard disks.

If I did that I'd be dead tomorrow!

Funny, I was just about to quote that line as well and say:

If I did that, I'd never go to work.

True, without a doubt.

I very well may be dead. If, however, I'm living, I might see the wedding of one or two of my children. What I look most forward to in life is someday walking my daughter down the aisle.

I think ten years from now we'll look back and wonder what the hell we were thinking in electing tea party candidates.

I think Capo is going to achieve some measure of fame and acclaim, likely through something published.

Geoff will become a husband and father.

SC will be celebrating ten years of friendship and companionship with his fairly new cat.

Obviously you have a different interpretation of "Stop and smell the roses"!

All the 'roses' I'd 'smell' are the property of other men, so to speak.

Ah, the attraction to forbidden fruit! That WILL lead to your last day very quickly!

Or as a terrorist, whether comes first.

Noted blues guitarist and relationship expert Albert King sang:

"If you got a good woman you'd better pin her to your side
If you got a good woman you'd better chain her to your side
Cause if she flag my train brother, I'm bound to let her ride"

Wise man, that Mr. King...