The Future

In the future, after a tremendous effort to save the world from our mistakes, there will be sustainability. And we’ll all be quite bored by the whole idea. I imagine the world will be a lot like Stockholm Sweden is now—entirely too perfect, yet filled with people who still manage to complain about something.

When I wander around that city I have an unsettling urge to start a riot. It’s too perfect, and soon this earth will be too perfect as well. We’ll all wonder, “Where’s the suffering, where’s the new issue to tackle? Where’s the next big project?”

So we’ll do something amazing, something incredible… something that changes everything. It will start as it has already, a minute curiosity: the itch to explore the universe. We’ll begin simply, with a weekend to mars, a day trip to the moon. And then someone like Richard Branson will say “forget this planet; there’s a whole universe out there.”

And before you can recite the first four digits of the speed of light (2997) you’ll be bragging to your friends about how you scored a cheap space-flight to somewhere in deep space. You’re off to start a new life—you adventurous spirit!

With that new pursuit we’ll all be on our way– to committing a whole new set of mistakes that will inevitably lead to the potential destruction of the universe. But I’m sure we’ll solve those problems as well—we’re good at that kind of thing.

Christine

You have more faith in humanity than I do. I hope you’re right.

Nov 26, 2009 @ 3:01 pm

Basti Hirsch ッ

Beautiful story spun from a simple “In the future, …” Looking forward to score that cheap trip on Ryanspace. We’ll figure it out.

Nov 29, 2009 @ 3:01 am

Jörn Hendrik

Hey Kosta,

thx for your optimism, thx for your daring true and clear optimism. Put it like Goerge Bernard Shaw:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Always stay unreasonable!

Cheers
JH

Dec 04, 2009 @ 12:42 pm

Some Dude

Where to begin in response?

You’re stupid? Arrogant? Ignorant? A racist? Maybe.

Sweden is Sweden because Africa is Africa, ass-head. Richard Branson is Sir Fucking Richard Branson because diamonds are worth more than a human’s hands and feet.

When you get a chance, look up the word PRIVILEGED in the dictionary.