2999

[mistersleepless]

(Originally written for the Millennium section of Fox News Online: "A snap shot of the future: A brief interview with a science fiction author each month on what they think the year 2999 might look like".)The worst thing about 2999 is that this interview will still be archived somewhere, and precisely a thousand years from now some curious kid will

Comments

[iamubergeek]

That sounds like Birmingham on a saturday night.

[redwolf]

While stuff may well be archived, that doesn't mean it's still accessible. Witness how bollocksed up the Digital Domesday Project was after less than 20 years.

[socialunravelin]

I can't seem to find the articles you speak of on Fox/Google.

[aberrantvirtue]

Yay! That's a great vision.

I love that bit about being brought back to life. :)

[pfrank]

The idea of altering ourselves to survive on other planets seems like a much less outlandish and crazy idea than terraforming. Something along the lines of the Ousters from the Hyperion books seem much more likely to me.