[Diary entry]
13th June 3012 – TIME CAPSULE
Dear diary, today’s entry will be a little bit
different. A few days ago, I heard about “time capsules”, and I think it’s a
really interesting idea. You know I’ve always wanted to time travel, but we
aren’t allowed to do it. I want to leave something for the people in the
future, at least. Therefore, I’ve decided to write a little summary about how
is an average life nowadays. Since it seems that people used to bury those time
capsules, I’ll not only write it on my digital diary, but also print this and
find a place to hide it. Here we go:
Hello, stranger! I’m Cristina,
from year 3012. I don’t know when are you reading this, but if it is before
year 3032, please leave this where you found it.
I’m here to introduce you year 3012. I don’t know what
can be different from your time, so I’ll talk about a little bit of everything.
As I mentioned before, we are not allowed to time travel, because we could
modify timelines and this kind of stuff, you know, like the famous 2995
disaster. What we are now allowed to use is teleportation. It’s been a while since
it was invented, but then it was forbidden, and then only authorized ones could
use it, and finally two years ago the new law declared everyone could use it,
but it’s still expensive. We must follow a lot of useless instructions to use
it, but at least we can. These instructions may be removed in couple of months,
so you might not have to wear those ugly jumpsuits.
Moving on to more trivial things: the city. We have
huge buildings, the streets have a lot of vegetation (which is pretty normal,
but apparently there have already been three environmental crisis which almost
ends humanity), one park in the centre of every city, floating trains that
connect the higher floors, etc. This mustn’t have changed. For now, our public
transport works this way: when you enter it and when you get out of it, you
must scan your wrist, this way it’s counted how many times you’ve used it per
month and compare it with how many times you’ve used your own car, based on
this comparison, you’ll have to pay lower or higher transport taxes. The higher
use of public transport, the lower your taxes are. I think this shouldn’t
change since it’s pretty effective.
About education, we have 4 hours of class a day, from
7:45 to 12:00. At 15:00h the virtual classes start. Each student chooses them
based on what they want to study or work on later, and they can pick from one
to a maximum of 4 subjects. Those subjects are flexible, you can make your own
schedule with them, and the teacher in this case is a hologram with AI, which
will try to answer all your questions and make personalized lessons. Those
subjects don’t have a closed syllabus, its main purpose is to let the student
expand its knowledge in the subject as much as he wants and promote curiosity.
At the end of the term you must have done a minimum of hours, which shouldn’t
be a problem since you’re doing the subjects you like. As you may have similar
interests as other students, sometimes you’re asked whether you want to join a
group or not, if you do, you can have holo-calls, this way you can share ideas
and questions and the AI can programme group projects based on research. In
university things work more or less the same way.
For now, this is all that comes to my mind, maybe
later I’ll remember of something else that may be important, but now I have to
take the spaceship to Mars to visit some relatives. See you!
PS: If in the
future time travelling is allowed, please send me a reply.
Cristina Camacho
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