"Dear Nestor: A Letter from 2050”
Title | "Dear Nestor: A Letter from 2050” |
Year for Search | 2000 |
Authors | Douglass, William |
Secondary Title | Whole Earth |
Volume / Edition | no. 103 |
Pagination | 82-84 |
Date Published | Winter 2000 |
Keywords | Male author |
Annotation | Eutopia in a letter from a twelve year old boy living in Bangladesh, which is part of the South Asian Block of nations, in a high tech future. The U.S. is a member of the North American Trading Block, and power now resides in these blocks rather than in the individual countries; e.g. the U.S. President is largely a ceremonial position. The U.S. is somewhat backward in that it still requires human pilots on airplanes. There is a tunnel from Miami to Habana, Cuba. Genes are implanted to keep a child from developing cancer or HIV and to slow the aging process and increase intelligence. Trial marriages are common. People travel to Mars for holidays. |
Additional Publishers | Originally published in Dudley Fishburn, ed. The World in 2001. London: Economist, 2000 [Not found]. |
Info Notes | Won first prize in an Economist contest. |
Full Text | 2000 Douglass, William. “Dear Nestor: A Letter from 2050.” Whole Earth, no. 103 (Winter 2000): 82-84. Originally published in Dudley Fishburn, ed. The World in 2001. London: Economist, 2000 [Not found].. Eutopia in a letter from a twelve year old boy living in Bangladesh, which is part of the South Asian Block of nations, in a high tech future. The U.S. is a member of the North American Trading Block, and power now resides in these blocks rather than in the individual countries; e.g. the U.S. President is largely a ceremonial position. The U.S. is somewhat backward in that it still requires human pilots on airplanes. There is a tunnel from Miami to Habana, Cuba. Genes are implanted to keep a child from developing cancer or HIV and to slow the aging process and increase intelligence. Trial marriages are common. People travel to Mars for holidays. Won first prize in an Economist contest. |