My Travel
Into The Year A.D. 10000
What we now
think as great, superb, will be something out of date in the year 10000 as a
man riding on a camel to flying in a super jet.
The earth was
so green, so serene, except the warble of birds, gurgling creeks, whispering
leaves in the wind. I seldom saw a man, or was it an alien of outer space who
was sailing in the air.
Oh, how nice to travel in the air. I didn’t see any roads, streets, highways, railroads, airports. There were no cars, trucks, buses, trains, planes, no factories, … They’re extinct, they didn’t need them anymore. If there was, it must be a space vehicle.
They lived in
ray ban capsules as ray ban glasses, light as though a spiders web, easy to set
up anywhere, sailing in the air, floating on a lake or river or in the sea among fishes, anemones and coral reefs.
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It was so easy
for them to regulate the number of population by birth control and so rebuild
the earth into a paradise to be happy for man and all creatures.
I then started
as I came back and I saw our people race, compete to build tall skyscrapers,
luxurious real estates, giant factories, enlarging the cities, broadening the
streets to cope with the endless increase of the world population or … to take
the chance, advantage to become rich. And thus, the land which was so green so
fertile, so serene before, is turning barren, the traffic jammed, life and the government burdened, overwhelmed with
headaches, stress and sleepless nights.
It’s now 1994
and that was but in the year 10000 A.D. What about the year 50000 A.D.?
From Berita
Buana, September 9, 1994
March 2012
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