Creativity in the Year 2084

Paul Decker had just turned 91 years old, which he didn’t exactly feel was that much of an accomplishment. He knew that if he did not get struck by a bolt of lightning or some other life-threatening incident, he was probably good for another 60 years. As the day went on he started to do a little reminiscing the year he was born was 1993. He grew up in a small town in Kansas, he thought to himself, “What an innocent time that was.” It wasn’t long before he started to think about his parents, both deceased. Paul remembered when he was 27 years old in the year 2020 there was a pandemic and unfortunately his father passed away due to a virus that nobody seemed to clearly understand what it was all about.

It wasn’t too many years later that his mother passed on. He often thought if they both could have lived a little bit longer there would’ve been a treatment for all diseases and their life expectancy would’ve doubled.

Paul went outside and sat down in his favorite porch chair. It was one of those that should’ve been thrown away. He thought to himself, “This chair certainly wasn’t designed for any kind of comfort.” The antique chair with its synthetic seat probably was made around 2030; it did have some interesting conveniences though, a built-in cooling and heating unit that controlled its temperature, dictated by the weather and the desires of the person seated. Paul…