It's funny how you figure out something that you have been wondering about for years, and then it seems so simple, you can't believe you never thought of it before. I used to read a lot of science fiction; Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinline, stuff like that. They were always talking about traveling through time. It's interesting how so many of those stories were set in the 21st century. I just felt like it would be really cool if I could travel ahead into the 21st century and see what kind of wonderful things they would have. But that was 50 years in the future. Then finally I found the key. Patience. If you have patience you will get to travel into the future, where they have jet planes, space stations, television, close up pictures of Mars, people walking on the moon, instant worldwide communications, artificial body parts, telephones that you can carry around in your pocket and use anywhere, artificial climates in buildings and vehicles, reliable navigation that doesn't depend on the earth's magnetic field, watches that you don't ever have to wind up, moving sidewalks and stairways, bicycles that weigh almost nothing, but will climb the steepest mountain trail, and who knows what else that the science fiction writers haven't even thought of yet. All you need to do is be patient and take a few simple precautions like not crossing the street without looking and not smoking tobacco. All of those wonderful future things were stuff I dreamed about and then saw happen as I moved ahead into the future. Now that I'm here, I really like the future. Sometimes I think about the 22nd century, and I wonder.........what if?
Howard