Unless you've been marooned on some faraway, completely isolated island you would know that we have finally arrived in.....the future!
On the 21st October 2015 Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown arrived from the past in their DeLorean (I seem to be developing quite a connection to the Back to the Future series with all my Emmett Brown references!). In the 80's twenty-fifteen seemed so very far away...and the writers must have thought they were revolutionary in their predictions.
Whilst the flying cars and re-hydrating pizzas have not been produced (at least to my knowledge) they were pretty accurate with the flat widescreen TVs, tablets and video chat.
It got me thinking...what do we think 2045 will look like? Don't think about monetary or technological constraints, just think about the most awesome and life altering invention you can think of. And imagine what you will be doing in 2045?!
I know a 30 year plan is rather unrealistic (especially considering I've never done a 5 year plan!) but dreaming big seems to be something that is squashed out of us as we grow up.
Imagine the fun and crazy conversations that would ensue if you asked a room full of children what 2045 would look like....but adults put caveats and disclaimers on their dreams or worse still don't have them. After all our goals must be S.M.A.R.T (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely). Well - why don't you just line up innovation alongside creativity and shoot them both!
So - I'll set a challenge for you all. Write down a dream, put a time stamp on it and now it's in the digital memory bank we'll have a chance to go back and see how hilariously inaccurate or unnervingly accurate we were...
My 2045: people will fly (no need for flying cars McFly), spinach will taste like chocolate, trees will dominate our landscape with houses surreptitiously incorporated, I'll be alive and well celebrating (on the Whitsunday Island I somehow acquire) the birth of my 5th grandchild and my job will be buying people gifts and exploring the world!
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