Time Machine

This happened 115 years ago.

After a Time Traveller escaped from the Morlocks, he finds himself in the distant future of an unrecognisable Earth, populated with furry, hopping herbivores. He stuns or kills one with a rock, and upon closer examination realises they are probably the descendants of cross breed humans/Eloi/Morlocks. The Morlocks originally fed on the Eloi, but also mated with them, as did, latterly, the humans. A gigantic, centipede-like arthropod approaches and the Traveller flees into the next day, finding that the creature has apparently eaten the tiny humanoid.

And this happened 115 years ago.........................................

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Human Memory Download

Some time in the near future, scientists will be able to take reminiscences from a human brain and store them digitally, for others to experience. This is likely to be a long and painful process for the memory supplier, yet it may have logical benefits for that person.

Sufferers of Alzheimer's disease could have their brain reseeded, or the patient which has undergone trauma resulting in loss of memory could be given a jolt from their past. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning—thinking, remembering, and reasoning—to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities: yet these persons too could be helped by taking part in human memory download in advance of the onset of such an illness.

This piece reflects an important medical development: it is also a long and painful process.

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Global Voting

(Van Credenza continues to look into the future)

A small unit recognising your palm print, located within your home....placed there by operatives from the world government. You can freely vote on every important issue which arises by pressing the correct button, as it happens! Remember to press the correct button.

This is the sound it makes.................................

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Prison Countries

Prison Countries

In the first of a new series of extrapolative technological work, Van Credenza looks to the future and predicts scientific changes which may or may not benefit the world’s population.

Mesopotamia

Bactria

Nyasaland

Grain Coast

Dahomey

Prussia

Bourbon Island

Silesia

Abyssinia

Upper Volta

Transylvania

Galilee

Zanzibar

Soviet Union

Formosa

Moluccas

Siam

Katanga

Friendly Islands

New Spain

Bohemia

All of the above were at one time 'Prison Countries'. They changed names to avoid the stigma and shame such a legacy would convey. But, what if, in the future........?

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