2049
2049. That’s the expiration date on one of my gas credit cards. I’ll admit. I did a cartoon double-take when I noticed the date (for the first time). I’ve had the card for at least a year.
Do they seriously think I’ll be driving (and therefor buying gas) by then?
Will we even have gas then?
I hope not!
( for you skeptics)
After all the other things that have changed does this gas company really feel that they won’t have gone the way of the brontosaurus- which, by the way, is how we get oil in the first place- long before 2049?
By 2049, hopefully even electric cars will be antiques; and we’ll be getting around in some novel way that no one’s even conceived of yet. Maybe we will have “gotten past” the need to go anywhere at all…maybe there will be some sort of group consciousness that develops that enables all of humanity to stay in one place and do business (if that even exists then as well). Maybe it’ll be like the internet but all in person…it’d be much harder to be a bigot then- no where to hide.
Anyway, I digress…
Think about how much the last 29 years have changed. Do you feel things speeding up? Of course you do! So how will we extrapolate what the next 29 years will be like? With changes multiplying changes instead of adding and building up, we’ll be “leapfrogging” like crazy, and so it’s impossible to predict what gas will be used for- if there’s even any left by 2049.
Check your gas cards. Maybe it’s some sort of scam to exert a hold on us, and our possessions after death.
I truly wish I could be around that long just to watch what happens.
And just to be clear with all this talk about driving almost 30 years from now, I’m still a mite peeved that we don’t have those Jetson’s cars yet. Even self-driving cars are still sort of Sci Fi now, though I believe they’ll be “ready for primetime soon”. Fuel will likely be the 2049 equivalent of a 9volt battery. That would be awfully cool to see…
Yet as much as I hate to think about it, I imagine that I’ll be long gone by then…Maybe my grandkids will use the card. Who nows?
2049. Here I come! 2049.
