From: ghdiel@exoptica.com   
      
   FUTURE EVENTS/TECHNOLGY, 2085   
   A Fiction, by G.H. DIEL   
      
   1.    Personal/Public high speed transportation becomes widespread.   
   2.    Terrorist evolved governments spread like Communism in earlier   
   century, but most are Fascist-based on religious ideologies, and ultimately,   
   all   
   fail.   
   3.     Various, major, world metropolitan areas, including US centers,   
   bombed by  terrorists-with nuclear devices.   
   4.     Nuclear Bombing of South American and Middle East   
   5.     A single device levels playing field for most governments, once   
   'universal record'  containing highly detailed personal records is known to   
   exist, and   
   becomes available to all.   
   6.     International manned bases on Moon, Mars and manned solar probes.   
   7.     Coastal areas of world flooded; countries that can afford it, protect   
   territory with  massive dikes.   
   8.     'Transparency' fabrics become consumer products allowing individuals   
   to move in  public, invisibly.   
   9.     Obesity and 'physical' defects eliminated genetically and with   
   stem-cell derivatives,  as are many traditional diseases: diabetes, organ   
   disease, and   
   most cancers   
   10.     Synthetic body parts become commonly available.   
   11.     Famine and arid areas still a problem, as are pockets of   
   homelessness and poverty -  same as now (early 21st century). Fresh water   
   replaces oil   
   as the most valuable global  natural resource.   
   12.     Earth's population dramatically declines.   
   13.     Rich have--poor still do not, but social programs and governments do   
   improve, social  consciousness sees gains globally, though description of   
   the type of government and  economic systems to not fit into traditional   
   niches.   
   14.     Human 'ethos' and moral understanding changes slowly; pretty much   
   same as in early  21st century.   
   15.     Religion still focuses on the 'human' spirit, though it is still   
   intangible--though a single device may usurp this, providing recognition of   
   a 'tangible'   
   human soul.   
   16.     Synthetic, 'designer beings', created in varying parts, genetic   
   altered,  mechanical/electrical/organic parts replacement   
   17.     Life expectancy-infinite, through electronic/organic memory   
   interface and genetic replication of organs and DNA, that is, 'cloning'.   
   18.     It becomes common knowledge, based on scientific and theological   
   research, that 'life' is nothing other than memories--also, the definition   
   of  'time' changes as it is proven that there is no 'past',  that there is   
   no   
   'present', only the future.   
      
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