Dear Klaus,

This letter comes to you 100 years in the future. Today, so many things have changed. We laugh at cars not flying. We’re suprised that chocolate bars used to be $3. That nobody had robots do everything for them. That we didn’t even have the technology to make dogs talk!

Everyone always speaks of the future like it is something to look forward to so much, but I feel different. Experiencing the future is strange. You’d think we all would love a time where robots do everything for us and cars don’t touch the ground. But we don’t. Well, I don’t.

Back when everything was simpler it was so much better. Nothing had changed yet. We didn’t have the super high tech to lock every criminal we see away and rid the world of crime. We didn’t have AI doing our homework (at least I think) and all of these engineers being the ones who had the good jobs.

But I guess at the end of the day there is some major positives. For example, I can write to my friend of the past. I can teleport anywhere instantly (if it’s not farther than a state or two away), which makes traveling much easier. And of course, all this technology. In the past we would think that we wouldn’t really evolve tech so quickly, and yet we have. Flying cars, AI robots, robotic machines, and even the tech to make dogs talk!

So yeah, maybe the change isn’t super good, but it’s certainly not super bad either. After all, as a great Star Wars character once said: “You can’t stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.”