2220, Our Quantum Age

2043 was a great year. It was then that we transcended quantum supremacy and unlocked the secrets of artificial general intelligence (AGI) — and it was all because we paused as a race, and came together as one to advance humanity. It was that year that laid a foundation for where we are now 2220.

The advances in medicine, food science, communications, security, sub-orbital travel, interstellar travel and teleportation are changing how we see connection and the fabric of humanity. Within it we see human-biological symbiosis and nanotechnologies combine to eradicate cancers and build an ever-healing infrastructure.

We’ve seen equality and equity through community commons, true liquid democracy aligned with the public system and data ownership and control. We’ve seen the rise of ‘Corporations for the people’ and ‘people as corporations’ — and, we live beyond memory as digital ice flows in the sea of human history and consciousness.

We are in the age of beauty of memory and transcendence. For that is our goal, and the Internet was the dead sea scrolls test run for what we have found.

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Author note: As a futurist, I delve into what may be by asking what if… Futurists, and foresight practitioners, can find beauty in the far futures we can imagine. Technological, yes. Human? Definitely!