Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.
As the classical author said ‘the more things change the more they stay the same’. I expect the world of 2078 to be the same but different. In your hundred years of life the world will have changed tremendously and in many respects 1978 is a world away.
I remember in 1988 the first BBC computers in schools. These were less powerful than the phones twenty years later but radically more powerful than the computers on the space rocket that went to the moon. I remember in 1996 hand writing essays for my university course and typing everything by 1999, in 2024 I started using the dictate function on my iPhone. What wonders did you see between 2026 and 2078?
My son was born in 2014 a hundred years after his grandmothers birth and a hundred years after his great great grandfathers death. When I am a hundred he will be sixty four, more than a decade older than I am now. Dear God I hope he has a great life not marred by war or disaster.
I expect my sisters and my wife will still be alive and kicking, although many people that I know will be dead. My parents will I expect have gone by the 2050s and 60s along with the entire fifties and sixties generation. How strange to think of entire generations just passing away like corn before the scythe.
I hope our life improves, that our fears do not come to pass and that in the far future I can hear birds, smell flowers and stroke the distant relative of our current cat.