15th August is a variety of memorable events. For one, it was my birth country India’s Independence day. And this year it is 75 years since the British left India. Growing up it was a holiday we celebrated, a day of patriotism. Now while it seems in the distant past there is still a little bit of nostalgia sitting here in my adopted country, Canada. For another is it my father-in-law’s birthday. Happy birthday, FIL-ly.

But this year, August 15 is even more memorable to me. I am probably one of those few people looking at this day to make a different meaning from it. It was 10,367 days to go when I last wrote about it. Today, it is 10,000 days to the New Year of 2050. The middle of this century. A superficial goal that I would love to see. Something that I might make it to if I am destined to be there. A potential destiny not in my hands. Certainly plausible. How probable I know not.

Looking at it in years, it is about a little over 27 years from here. Can you imagine how the world will be then?

Apart from my biggest personal question on whether I would make it there, I have a bunch of other questions to myself in wonderment and awe about it:

• What will mobile phones be then? Computers?

• Internet? TV? Entertainment?

• Artificial intelligence? What will it do to us?

• Cars? Autonomous driving? Will I own a car? Will I own a driver’s license?

• Carbon-based fuels? And energy alternatives?

• Health technology progressions. I could do with a new heart and some replacement arteries. Maybe.

• Genetics-driven medicines? Prolonged life spans?

• What would be medical systems and hospitals like?

• Colony on the moon? Mars conquered and settled?

• Worlds War III: Will we be even alive? Putin might be 96. North Korea? The middle east? What is the next cauldron?

• Does China possess Taiwan? A long ten-year war?

• Climate change, meteor showers that hit us?

• Ocean levels and sea rises? Any sinking or relocated cities?

• Weather patterns? Heat? Forest fires? Countries burnt out?

• Wildlife survival? Extinctions, including us as humans.

• How many more financial turnaround and fall cycles since now?

• Will democracy survive in America? Where will this polarized country go?

• What is money? What replaces the blockchain?

• Air travel through space travel? Nuclear-powered planes?

• What is work and how do people work?

• Will we all be on dole?

• A 3-day work week?

• Will we be truly inclusive as humans instead of today’s lip service?

• What else? What else? What else?

Dream on. What’s your list? What are your questions? Where will you be and what will you be doing then?