This is 2020, an entry originally posted on June 21, 2003 in the blog nebulose.net. In chronological order, before this was Over. After this comes Blind. If you're lost, I recommend the about page.

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2020

While I work on a more substantial piece that’s coming soon, I’ll reproduce some prior art to keep things moving around here. Found this in the very back of my drawer, in an envelope labeled “To be opened 5/1/2020.” (You will notice that I had not yet discovered ISO 8601 dates. Oh the horror.)

April 20, 2000

Dear Aaron,

How are things? I am writing this in the eigth grade. Ideally, this is to be opened and read in the year 2020. This probably will not happen. However, just in case it does — and since I have to write this anyway — I will include some personal predictions for the year 2020.

On this date in the year 2020, I will be 33 years old. At this time, I hope to be living somewhere other than here, preferably the west coast. I will have graduated from college with some kind of computer degree. With any luck, I will have a job in this field. I think I will have a pet or two, and well will live in an apartment or a small house.

All these things are amenable to change, but I am still pretty sure about most of them. However, ther eare also many questions I have about the future. I really have no idea if I will ever get married or have children. I don’t know whether or not I will ever have my own company. In 2020, who am I working for? Do I still know any of my old friends from school? What kinds of things do I do in my spare time? Has man been to Mars? Back to the moon?

Perhaps, having read this, you (I?) will write another letter, to be opened in another 20 years. Include in it your (my) future aspirations, and a copy of this letter, and we can see the progression.

If time machines are invented in 2020, come back and tell me some answers.

Sincerely,
Aaron

P.S. — Are you balding yet?

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Comments

to answer one of your questions, you will be in touch with your old friends. i will make sure of that. good luck with the going bald thing.

Posted by sylvia at June 21, 2003 12:44 PM :: Link

yes, man has been to mars. in fact, you have been to mars dear…how cool is that?

hehe ;)

Posted by Becca at June 21, 2003 10:54 PM :: Link

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