The Buckets by Greg Cravens for January 01, 2020

Fiction writers are getting harder to unmask!

If I were to believe all of tje science fiction stories I’ve read, I would be half-way across the universe by now.

Well, you could always say “two-thousand-twenty.”

No, they can just move ahead 50 years (to the year of our lord 2070).

I love watching old Sci-fi and seeing how close or far they are from what is the actual now. I remember the old “if we could see the person we were telephoning”. We have that. Data pads, we have that.

This reminds me that I must finally decide if I’m going to say TWUNTY-TWUNTY or TWENTY-TWENTY.

(I hope the Germans don’t hurt themselves saying ZWANZIG-ZWANZIG.)

Well, we haven’t reached Zager and Evans levels yet.

I’m reminded of a song I use to hear as a boy , “In the Year 2525”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA

Does anyone else remember the cartoon show “Sealab 2020?”

They ran out of time in 2000!