So, i've been encouraged to leave an entry in the Time Capsule.
For some reason, having a 14 year "time capsule" seems like leaving $5 in your jacket pocket for next winter.
Still, who am i to resist? i doubt that this will make it through the system, but if it doesn't at least you'll know:
In fourteen years, none of this will matter.
Seriously. We'll still be wearing blue-jeans and t-shirts, and all the high school girls will be wearing slightly skankier 2000-retro clothes (which were slightly skankier rip offs of the 70's anyway). They'll still be loitering in the malls. Portable media players will be dominated by one or two main players. Our political system will still be horribly messed up (although still better than a great many others). There will still be at least one war going on.
Religion will still be the single deciding factor in far too many people's lives and those folks will happily use their peaceful religion to violently strike at those that differ. Those that do manage to publically note that the guy who's teachings are the basis for their religion had a pretty strict "No Violence" policy will be found dead the next morning from what appears to be extreamist actions.
Computers will be smaller and faster, but not that much smaller, and probably just a little faster. Microsoft will probably still hold sway over the vast majority of systems. They still won't be "fast enough" to run all the crap we feel we need.
The Internet will be a commodity like most other utilities, but hardly as pervasive as all. There will still be a good percentage of the public that are "unwired", and unable to check the vast amounts of data that they've willingly surrendered to various corporations so they can get $50 discount coupons for Wal*Mart. Technology will continue to bubble and burst like some fat kid's bath water. With any luck, Yahoo won't be the answer to a question the disembodied, preserved head of Alex Trubek asks contestants on some future version of Jeopardy.
There will be no personal jet packs, no affordable robot butlers, no holographic projectors. We will still be overweight, eat fast food and have common colds (although i'll note that in the mean time, 100 new drugs will be introduced to solve problems you never even knew you had).
The good ol' days, weren't quite so good.
These modern times you live in, they're not so bad.
Oh yeah, and if you see some grumpy old guy in his late 50's grumbling about the lack of jetpacks, robot butlers, and that he still has a cold? Give him a knowing nod.
Then get off his damn lawn.
Lousy future kids.
