Welcome to the future!

_Elsa_

What ever happened to Chewy? He opened the door and went inside ………………….

Look at where he lands! Some wizard looking guy approaches him.

“Welcome to the future! My name is Sagan,” says Sagan.  “I’ve been called a precognizant. I can predict future events or developments.”

‘Did you ever have a dream that came true, blow by blow? Do you ever get hunches that something will happen, only to watch as that very thing happens later on? This is a gift known as precognition or knowing something will happen before it happens.

With precognizants, they often don’t have control of what they’re seeing or when they’re seeing it. They can’t explain what’s going on, either. Sometimes, it’s a one-time brush with the paranormal. Other times, it happens on a regular basis.

Precognition can happen in a variety of different ways. It can happen through random feelings of knowing something’s about to happen. It can happen through dreams of things to come. Or, sometimes, people will just “see” things right before their eyes.’ (Source)

Chewy doesn’t understand what’s going on. He asks what year it is and Sagan tells him that it’s 2100. What? How did that happen?

“You must have time travelled,” says Sagan. “I see that you have this confused look on your face so let me explain this a bit more. Have you ever heard about the TV show called The Jetsons? Back then people weren’t aware that tech could be a thing of the future. Let me tell you a bit more about this.”

‘The Jetsons were right: movies have been predicting tech since the 60's - Jetsons correctly predicted a number of inventions we take for granted as part of everyday modern life. George and Jane and their kids used tanning beds, video chat, an iPad prototype called a televiewer and employed the services of a robot vacuum cleaner.

Here's a look at some of the technological phenomena that other movies and shows have predicted over the years - you know, like The Jetsons...

STAR TREK (1966) - 'Star Trek's' sci-fi universe provided prototypes for the smartphone, a universal translator and 3D printing.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) - From Skype and FaceTime video chat to tablet computers and the age of Siri, Kubrick and collaborator Arthur C Clarke got a lot right and thankfully, so far, a few things wrong - computers haven't started killing us just yet.

BLADE RUNNER (1982) - In 1982 Blade Runner gave us Skype, digital advertising billboards and retinal scanning.

THE TERMINATOR (1984) - In pursuit of Sarah Connor, the evil Skynet releases drones.

SHORT CIRCUIT (1986) - this film's main character is an experimental military robot who gains more humanlike intelligence after being struck by lightning. Today's military robots are used to defuse bombs.

BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) - We don't have hover-boards yet, but the wearable tech Marty McFly discovers on his trip to the future is a reality thanks to Google Glass and VR headsets like Oculus Rift.

MINORITY REPORT (2002) - Steven Spielberg's film used the most advanced technology of its time to portray a world that was closer than we thought. No, we don't have predictive policing, but we do have gestural computing, driverless cars and targeted advertising.

ELYSIUM (2013) - A world in which rich people live on a space station while everything goes to hell on Earth. With Elon Musk looking to make a colony on Mars a reality, how far are we from this situation?’ (Source)

“You see, the writers who wrote those TV shows and movies must have had some kind of inclination of how the world might be changing,” says Sagan. “I’m not sure how they learned about those things but perhaps they spoke to a precognizant or a couple of them. Are you ok? Would you like to learn more about the future?”

Chewy is still in shock so she just nods his head in agreement.

Let’s continue - The 21st century

Start at the beginning – Two Doors