Arrgh! Where does the time go? It's mid-way through April 1012 - just take a moment to register that. It's 2012.
Where are our hover boards? They promised us jet packs!
When I was at school, there was a drawing competition where we had to make a picture of what life would be like in the year 2000. So, as you can probably imagine, it was all
Back to The Future type flying cars and robots serving the dinner or doing the cleaning. There was one painting however, that was a little different to the rest. It was a very drab rendition of a housing estate drawn from above with normal looking houses and normal looking cars that drove very much like normal cars - with tyres, on the road. I remember thinking as I handed in my rocket time machine jet pack house, what if he was right? What if this child's vision for the future was correct?
I waited patiently for the millennium. And lo, it was the same as the year before, and the year before that. there were no jet packs, no hover boards and no friendly robots drying the dishes and bringing tea.
So, why am I writing this post?
Well, it just occurred to me that - 12 years later and I still don't own a hover board - I mean, come on!
And then, I comfort myself with the happy fact that I can make the world of my characters into what ever I feel like at the time - so - expect some jet pack action in my new novel - (maybe...)
What did you think we'd have by now?
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