Hi M,
The year is 2055 and you're about 120 (not 220 yet) and
going strong in good health, and I'm about 93 years old, have 3 kids and 2
grandkids. We still meet on Cuttyhunk every year over the 10 weeks of
summer when I'm mostly there. World University is a flourishing wiki
knowledge conversation in all 7,097 living languages (but the number
will have changed) and especially flourishing with artificial
intelligemce and machine translation ~ http://worlduniversityandschool.org.
World University and School has
also become major universities in all countries' main and official
languages - each with much autonomy, like Quaker Yearly Meetings (in many countries and languages), but
also still very CC MIT OCW, CC Yale OYC and Stanford-centric. Hippies
have come and gone, except in pockets around the world, such as still at
Harbin Hot Springs {http://bit.ly/HarbinBook}, and Unitarian Universalist churches and
unprogrammed Quaker Meetings still exist.
I can't say whether the oceans
have risen or not, due to global warming climate change (with massive
loss of land and real estate), but poverty has mostly been eliminated and
the urban-agrarian divide of today is a little more urban, yet
agricultural land has been significantly preserved in all countries
(thanks much to information technologies). A basic universal income has
been working for about 35 years now.
Some peoples are still living the
beautiful ethnographic science fiction vision of Ursula Le Guin's
wondrous book (informed by the '60s) "Always Coming Home" (which takes place 400 years in the future).
And we're still writing and communicating electronically, anticipating
another grandkid in 2056 (from my eldest) and a few further grandkids
over the next 5 years.
I'm Bay Area Rapid Transit heading into the American Friends
Service Committee / SF Quaker Meeting to hold a WUaS hive meeting
space. Making honey ...
How are you? What are you up to today?
L,
Scott
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