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Looking Back From 2057

IntroductionWell, its been an excitingService) where treatment was free at the
century for me starting with the launch ofpoint of need but paid for by everyone. When
the Russian satellite, Sputnik in 1957 andthis was first introduced many people tried
ending with the first space elevator on myto live for free but soon got bored of
100th birthday in 2057. Its also been a saddrinking water, eating the same boring food
and depressing time too with various wars andand being unable to go anywhere or do
conflicts but it all worked out for us all inanything interesting. Another side effect was
the end.The really frustrating thing is weanother huge layer of bureaucracy was
could have done much of this years ago andremoved.Another change was tax. In the old
saved our selves so much grief, but we didn'tdays huge numbers of "tax inspectors" were
partly because we didn't know how but mostlyneeded to collect a tax from everyone. These
because of greed, self-interest and andays its automatic, you get paid, your credit
astonishing lack of vision.We have lost manyis updated and the state gets a small
things but gained so much more in return.percentage.A major change was the
Gone are many of the huge corporations,accountability of corporations. The laws of
out-manoeuvred by many smaller, more nimblethe time assigned the same rights to a
companies as predicted by "The Cluetraincorporation as to an individual. The problem
Manifesto" and "Dingoes andwas that the character of many corporations
Lions".EntertainmentLike many industries, thecould be described as greedy, paranoid and
music industry had to die before it could bepsychopathic. It was the early Internet that
re-born. Lets face it, any organisation thatmade exposing these much easier and faster.
sees its own customers as potential criminalsAfter a few high profile "melt downs", many
is definitely on the way out. In those days,of the more "psychopathic" corporations where
music and movies were distributed on plasticgiven the same treatment as an individual
discs (called CDs or DVDs) and billions werewould have got.The way companies are run has
spent on preventing people from doing whatchanged a lot too. In the bad old days,
they did naturally - sharing.Various methodscompanies would grow and grow until they
were tried to prevent this, DRM (Digitalimploded under their own weight. These days
Rights Management) was the most obnoxiousthings are more dynamic, some companies form
partly because it prevented people fromto produce a one-off product and dissolve
making copies (to use in their other players)soon after. Many behave like 'cells', when
but mostly because it "locked out"they reach a certain size, they divide into
competitors.The result was that :-1. Mostseparate entities. This kept them very lean
people ended up with unplayable disks due toand competitive, and most importantly -
incompatible DRM systems or companies goingfun.Things are much simpler these days too.
out of business.2. The "pirates" removed anyWalk into shop. Look in special mirror and
copy prevention and made the music trackssee your self in a selection of clothes as if
available on the original Internet.3. Peopleyou were wearing them. Real-time 3D
found it much easier to download from thedigitising and overlays. No need to be
"pirates" than to buy a "legal" disk and runmeasured, the 3D digitiser captured all your
the risk that it would be unplayable.4. Themeasurements and feed them to the machine
music industry got more desperate andthat would make your clothes.Law and
aggressive until they were sued out ofOrderCrime, though still present, has been
existence by their top performers, who hadmuch reduced. It all started in 2009 when a
grown tired of the negative publicity and hadwoman was burgled but found the burglar by
found a much better way to distributed andsearching through real-time satellite images
promote their music - the Internet.There wasof her house via an Internet sat-map service.
a brief flirtation with high capacity disksIt was simple to find an image of her house
like "Blue Ray" and "HD DVD" but the publicat the time the burglar entered and follow
got so tired of paying vast sums on new,him back to his flat half a mile away. She
incompatible formats that they either stuckpresented the images to the local police
with the original DVD (Dual Layer 7.5GB)force who "nicked" him.Another form of crime
format or just downloaded everything from thecalled "shoplifting" also disappeared when
Internet.These days not only is it legal, itstiny tracking devices called "RFID" were
encouraged. You can copy any piece of music,built into every sellable item. To purchase
video or literature to anyone or any device.all you had to do was pick up the item at a
As soon as you have listened or viewed 75% ofshop and walk out. As soon as you walked
it, the author gets a one-off micro-paymentthrough the shop door, your credit card was
automatically.In fact many artists gave muchautomatically debited by the cost of the
of their work away for free knowing that ifitem. Anyone daft enough to do this with an
it was good enough it would be copied"empty" credit card was tracked by the RFID
millions of times and they would becomein the item and dealt with.Biometrics also
household names very quickly. Anotherplayed a part as many things (like cars,
advantage of giving your work away was thatcomputers) would not work with any
you could attach contact and gig details tounauthorised person so stealing them was
each track so every time you had a concertpointless unless you could get round the
gig/etc all your fans were informedbiometric security system which was
automatically.The movie industry was also onexpensive.Micro MRI scanners make police work
the endangered list but saw what was comingso easy now. Round up the suspects for
just in time. Even so, its still a fractionquestioning and the scanner will soon know
of its original size. Gone are the greatwho is lying or not based on their brain
actors and actresses (replaced with virtualpatterns.SpaceWith an ever expanding
actors), gone are the studios (replaced withpopulation complicated by people living
virtual studios) and gone are fixed 'storylonger the only way was up. It started with
lines'. In those days a "movie" was just athings like the International Space Station
fixed sequence of images played one after thebut when space travel got cheaper huge
other very fast, you couldn't alter the storymulti-purpose space platforms were
line, change the characters or view eachconstructed. These originally housed
scene from different viewpoints like you canengineers and scientists but soon grew when
now. The main driver for all of this was themore modules were added like space
game industry, they had been doing this kindtelescopes, factories, hospitals and even
of thing for years.The way we watched thingshotels.These days, space travel is routine.
radically altered when huge, flexible videoMany people go into space to visit friends
displays became cheap enough to be used asliving on the space platforms or take tours.
wallpaper. These were bright enough toI went up a couple of years back to watch a
replace lights too. Many people used one wallspace probe being assembled and launched to
to watch programs and the others to displaystudy some primitive life on Jupiter's moon,
virtual, swimming fish as a form ofEuropa. I saw two people recover an old
relaxation (Bit like the earlycommunications satellite. No one uses those
screen-savers).CommunicationThe originalany more - the space platforms do that job
Internet was classed as "disruptivetoo. I also had a quick look at the telescope
technology" because it enabled the human racecontrol room and spent the night in the
to communicate across the world in so manyhotel. Its a weird experience when you move
different ways much to the annoyance of thefrom the outer ring were most of the people
media who preferred to keep informationlive and work (normal gravity), past the
artificially scarce and expensive.Thingsmiddle ring where the hospice / hospital /
really got interesting when Internet3 cameresearch areas, to the hub were most of the
on-line. This new network was a mix of theequipment is (no gravity).Some people choose
older Internet2 and NASA's revamped deepto spend their last days (and cash) in space,
space network. Not only could you communicatethe cash helped fund space development along
with anyone or thing on planet Earth, youwith some medical research. A lot of disabled
could reach people on the many orbiting spacepeople also worked in space too, no need for
platforms, the Moon bases, the Mars base andfunctional legs (or a wheel chair) when you
any other planet in our solarworked in zero G.The long awaited "Space
system.EnergyFor quite a long time,Elevator" is nearly operational now. It took
electricity was generated solely by "Poweryears to find a material that could be
Stations" from either Oil, Gas, Coal, Nuclearstretched 62,000 miles and withstand
Fission (later by Nuclear Fusion), Solar andcontinuous lightning strikes. There are
Wind/Wave turbines. As you can imagine, thesehundreds of companies bidding to build the
were huge, dirty, expensive andhuge platforms that will be anchored at
inefficient.The power was distributed alongstrategic locations along its length. At the
cables strung between huge metal towersend they fixed an asteroid. I heard they were
called "pylons" to all parts of the country.going to put a centrifugal launch platform
It was transmitted at a very high voltage butthere too.WeatherFor the very first time, the
stepped down to around 100 ~ 240 volts AC.human race had some useful control over the
Most buildings had some kind of "mains"weather. The space platforms had a continuous
supply connected to several power outlets (orread-out of the global weather condition.
sockets) that you could connect variousThis data was feed to super computers which
appliances to.The main problem with thisin turn controlled huge space mirrors. If the
system was that power-cuts were frequent andgulf stream started to slow, just reflect
when they happened, entire cities weresome of the Sun's energy to that point to
plunged into darkness. Another problem washelp the evaporation process. If there was a
that AC power is very hard to store in anyhurricane brewing near the American coast,
useful quantity making unexpected surgesthe computers would angle the mirrors to
expensive to deal with.These days, allgently heat the surrounding areas and disrupt
buildings are energy self-sufficient and comethe hurricane creation process. By subtly
complete with solar tiles, mini-windheating and cooling certain strategic
generators and storage batteries. Mostlocations, rain could be encouraged in fall
electronic equipment runs directly from thein useful places. Huge areas of desert were
batteries which are in turn charged from themade habitat able by this method.Reference
sun, wind, fuel-cells or any other availableand Inspiration"The Cluetrain Manifesto: The
power source.CommerceThese days, the basicEnd of Business as Usual" by Locke,
essentials of life are free like water,Weinberger, Searls & Levine"Dingoes and
certain foods and shelter. This was just aLions" by David Chan.
another extension UK's NHS (National Health



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