Do you ever wonder what life will be like in 100 years? Assuming there’s no end of world event between then and now, do you think robots will run the world while we sit back and relax? Do you think we’ll finally have the galaxy within reach as we grow numerous colonies on other planets within the solar system? Or will we be living on a planet where only the lucky few survived nuclear war on a global scale?

Do you think your ancestors wondered the same about out time? I mean, I know they did to an extent, at least – they thought enough to imagine the world would end before or at the year 2,000. Post WWII saw a surge in predictions of a Jetsons-like world where we all travel to work and school in flying cars. Even with those ideas, though, do you think they’d have believed you if you told them we could carry entire libraries in our pocket or create/sustain life in the many crazy ways we do?

If you ever have thought about the distant future, have you ever wondered why you’re here right now instead?

Isn’t it weird how time doesn’t ever stand still? The hero of today is long-forgotten after only a few years. Tomorrow’s leaders can’t even yet feed themselves, nor can they barely even eat “baby food.” How strange is it that one of the world’s worst villains could be a baby right now, one of its greatest heroes unable to talk?

Life is cool. It’s amazing. Time passes and life gets all the more marvelous, or maybe we simply realize more and more how marvelous it is. At the push of a button, I can chat “face-to-face” with someone on the other side of the world. Only in the last 150 years has it even been possible to communicate with voice over such a huge distance.

“Car” in the 1800s meant horse and buggy. Now, cars can drive themselves.

Electricity made it possible for us to see ourselves from off-planet locations. The fact that companies are working to get people to Mars within the next decade or so is astounding; not too long ago did we even believe God  would let us leave the earth’s atmosphere.

I’m not sure if you take the time now and again to appreciate the times we live in, but these really are spectacular times. We live at a juncture in time where all that the world has known for thousands of years is being upturned and reanalyzed based on what we’ve learned over the course of a couple hundred years (especially the last hundred years). If you were around before computers were even in many households, do you realize that kids in elementary school have never known a world without technology everywhere?

It’s astounding. It’s amazing. Think about it.