The film ‘The Bucket list’ is great fun and many people have written their own list of things they want to do before they kick the bucket. Bucket lists are not meant to be generic things like ‘seeing world peace’ or ‘eliminating poverty’ that everyone wants, they’re meant to be more personal, like meeting one of your heroes or visiting the Taj Mahal. I’d never written one so I thought it was time to remedy that. I’ll be a futurist until my last breath so apart from the first item, my list is things that aren’t yet possible, but should be by the time I get to 100 (in 2060). I’ve blogged about most of them.
- Visit Yosemite & a few other scenic locations
- Wear scanned laser active contact lenses
- Talk to a superhuman conscious machine
- Travel on a Hyperloop
- Watch 1st human Mars landing
- See Pythagoras Sling in action
- Visit a building over 30km tall
- Travel in a pod on a linear induction mat driverless transport system
- Own my own free-floating combat drone
- Wear an exoskeleton catsuit based on electroactive polymer or folded graphene muscles
- Use a real light sabre
- Travel on a Skyline at Mach 5 or above
- Visit a building with additional floating rooms using lighter-than-air materials
- Visit a Moon base
- Fire an inverse rail gun at an asteroid or see one used for space transport
- Experience consciousness being switched on and off electronically
- Get brain-IT link that provides extra IQ digit
- Have a real conversation with an IT-upskilled pet
- Share consciousness with another person
- Inhabit an android, and again with different gender or species
- Swap bodies with someone else for a day
- Have a plasma window in my office
- Experience cyberspace time travel
- See linear fusion demonstrated
- Own something made of cubic carbon
Write your own bucket list. As well as being fun, you will learn a little more about yourself. It is time well spent.
Timeguide - The future before it comes over the horizon 