If you could live in any time period what would it be?

I'm sure you have guessed that I like the future considering my favorite childhood cartoon was The Jetsons. Ever since I was a kid I have been fascinated the future. Watching Back To The Future II and being a Star Trek fan has also fueled my curiosity for this unknown time period.

I marvel in the idea of the future because it holds uncertainty and the promise of new inventions. The possibility of flying cars, a wrist watch that is actually a phone, and food that comes out of a machine on command would certainly be worth seeing and owning. The idea that we can really transport people from one place to the next like they do in Star Trek would solve so much of our traffic congestion. The adventure of flying into space, exploring new worlds, and making friends with aliens from other galaxies is both scary and exciting.

I have always said that I want to see the year 3000. I would love to be around for that turn of the century, but it's obvious that will remain a dream of mine. Why the year 3000? I'm not sure. Maybe because it is so far away from my own time line and I just cannot image what our world will look like. In the year 3000
will there be skyscrapers as tall as the eye can travel? Will people get around with jet packs? How much will a McDonald's cheeseburger cost? $30? Will we finally have the cure for the common cold? If so, will other diseases be cured too? The questions are endless.

The concepts of flying cars, transporters and, watches that are really phones are not too far fetched considering what mankind has done in the last thousand years. In 1900 no one ever thought there would be things called cars driving around city streets and they certainly did not think we would be transporting people by plane from one side of the country to the next. Thirty years ago no one thought people would listen to music on a CD. It was not until 1974 that computers became available to the average everyday person and look at us now. Nearly every home has at least one computer in it. Twenty years ago if you told some one that almost every human being would be carrying around a little portable phone they would have laughed at you.

I know I will never see the year 3000, but I will be around long enough to see the year 2040 and beyond. The only thing I want is to own a car that can fly. A DeLorean would do just fine, thank you.

Do you have a favorite time period? What is it?


8 comments:

NathanKP said...

It may sound silly, but I think that if I could choose to live in any time period I would choose right now.

We are products of the things and influences around us. I think that if you aren't happy with things the way they are now, then you aren't going to be happy with things in the future or the past either.

NathanKP - Imagination Manifesto

Sadie said...

I'd love to go back to the time of the Romans - around the time of Christ. I'm fascinated by their society and culture and the way it's so similar to ours.

It would also be neat to go back to the 1800s in England...

Or Ancient Japan....

I love history, sorry! lol

Jen said...

I've always been fascinated with the Tudor era in England. I'd love to visit, but not live there.

:)

Thinking about the future is exciting, but it also kind of gives me the willies, for some strange reason.

Scooter said...

Apparently about 15 years ago I agreed to make Thanksgiving dinner for my family in 2008... I totally assumed that we'd be eating in just pill form.. F ME! Now thanks to no progress in capsule sized food, I have to cook for 22 people.

Anonymous said...

Honestly, I wouldn't want to live in any other time. We take a lot of things for granted now: refrigerators, washing machines, indoor plumbing!

But I would *love* to visit New England 1820s-1840s during the Romantic/Transcendetalist Movement. Listen to Emerson, Thoreau, and the like. 1890s, early 1900s would also be cool.

And going back much further- ancient Egypt!

I'd love to have a time machine.

Bob Johnson said...

Lol, man you are so much like me, I was so born way too early, not enough technology around for me, I want to play on a holodeck, travel to the Moon, fly in my flying corvette convertible type car and on and on. I know I won't see any of these things in my lifetime, I just pray we don't destroy ourselves before future generations are able to.

Anonymous said...

No future. I love past. I woulld like to go in the time period of Attila the Hun. He has been my facorite hero since I read his story.

Dal Jeanis said...

I love this time and place. There are so many possiblities.

But, in 3000 the cure for the cold will be (A) back yourself up, (B) kill the defective body, (C) load yourself into the new body (D) [optional in US] sue the incompetent company that made the defective one.