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2000 YEARS IN THE FUTURE
by Julian Kleppe, Age 8
Julian originally wrote this piece for the 826 Valencia Bayfarer, and it is also featured in The 826 Valencia Quarterly, Vol. 11.
Have you ever wondered about the future? What will the world be like in two thousand years? I don’t know, but there are people
who think about these things. I’m not one of them, which is why
I called my friend Tracy Fieldestein. Tracy is a noted futurist. That
is someone who writes and thinks about the future.
In the future there may just be one type of money in the world.
Tracy said, “As long as there are people there will be money.” Just
like Europe ended up using only one form of currency, we may end
up having one monetary system. We may not end up using the Euro
two thousand years from now but we will definitely have a singular
world currency.
She asked me if it would be cool if there were solar powered flying
cars. My dad said, “Isn’t it scary enough driving is San Francisco
when the cars are on the ground?!” Tracy agreed, “People are lousy
drivers.”
Just as there will always be a traded currency, there will always
be treasure. The question is what will the treasure be? She told me
how an original copy of Superman just sold for $400,000. You could
have a gold bracelet with precious stones and it’s worth $200,000,
and a comic can be worth $400,000. Then Tracy asked, “What is
treasure?”
The future may be scary and there may even be monsters. We
may make monsters “like Jurassic Park.” Maybe we can combine a
chicken and a woolly mammoth, a chicken mammoth. “The human
kind?” she asks. “Probably. There are always people doing monstrous
things.”
Do you know what is going to happen in the future? I don’t but
ask someone else, maybe they know.
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