2500: A Visit to the Museum of Ancient Art

We took our daughter to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum to check out some exhibits showcasing the art forms in sculpture, painting, metal work, ceramic and such from six to ten centuries ago. Being of Asian heritage the art spanned everything from the Ming dynasty to the Buddhist age to the ancient stone work from the Indus region (present day India). It always fascinates me to see people from all walks of life taking in the what appears to be rather crude art in most cases to some of the really fascinating and exotic and intricate detail of glass ware and ceramic design from 500 years ago. Everything is neatly labeled and the museum also provides an audio assistant that you wear and walk around. You can call up a quick audio commentary based on the location of the artifact and learn more. There is definite similarities in the cultural nuances of a continent indicating a limitation of thought migration due to ignorance of other life forms besides what is called Asia. Now this got me thinking of what the world in 2500 would look like and if there will be our grand grand .. children taking in what life was like in the early part of the 21st century. Here is a prediction of what that experience might look like - The people from 2500 would not have to go anywhere to do anything. They will have done away with all manners of trains, planes and automobiles to actually arrive at a brick and mortar building to see what life was like in a bygone era. Instead they will just choose to bring the experience to them. How you ask? Well for starters what ever is showcased in the museum will be available on demand as a data stream in glorious M-D (not 3-D) for multi dimensional. It would not only include a complete physical dimensional experience but also the sound and smell (if applicable) along with the narration and historic reference of the 'making of' with special commentaries from the creator if the customer chooses. This experience will be beamed to them wherever the consumer is at that moment. Taking a hike in the Himalayas or wading through the Amazon. Any surface that they come in contact with - a mountainous rock face or a bottom of a canoe will become the screen on which to project the image and special retinal implants will provide the feedback. Custom bio engineered circuit in the ear will add sound effects to go with the image. All of this will arrive via high speed antenna embedded at birth in each womb that delivers the baby. This form of child birth will also be fairly uncommon since babies will come on demand from a large production facitlity where people will get a queue number. Certain parameters will be programmed to meet the demand from the planet and such babies will get cranked out with varying life spans. Boredom will determine when a particular model of human form is terminated. Beings from 2500 will smile or be aghast at how retarded our present lives must be where we keep wandering around the planet to achieve some sort of happiness. Many people will see pieces of rectangular glass with prehistoric sand circuits as being labeled iDevice found attached to the species ranging from human to non human. Each species will be seen as having some form of wrapping described as clothing in varying degrees. In some societies it would appear there are more clothers on non human species than human. This would provide endless entertainment to the audience who by then would have no need for any clothing with temperature and atmosphere control built in to the skin. The other possibility is that the Mayans were right and it all ends in 2012.