"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
A crash course in changing the world.
IMAGINE 1: Infrastructure challenges.
"Life isn't so bad, after all," I thought as I looked around at my surroundings. I had graduated from college exactly 12 months ago (luckily, the world hadn't ended in 2012), and my major in mobile communications had really paid off. With the mass migrations in 2018, the flooding of more and more Pacific Islands, and the river deltas starting to flood Bangladesh, infrastructure had started going to crap.
I looked around again. The interior of an older Airbus was rather boring scenery. Coach class doubled the dullness. I didn't really care too much, though. Soon, I would be landing in Beijing, ready for another flight to hop down to southern China. I was installing some mobile solar-powered WiMax base stations to accommodate the large influx of refugees coming from Indonesia and the Philippines. Mobile device ownership in Asia is the highest in the world—and all of those devices are data enabled. Combine that with the fact that the infrastructure down there is still quite shaky, and you have a recipe for disaster when millions of refugees overload the network trying to contact each other. Stuff like this was the core of our business. More infrastructure was needed all over.
The familiar announcement "ding" sounded and I could tell that we were starting to approach Beijing. All that smog? Yeah, but getting better—at least the government is trying to make an effort in the category of renewable energy subsidies. I grabbed my luggage and shuffled off the plane. I walked over towards the luggage claim. I grabbed the setup from the carousel. I walked away, making sure the case followed me. We might not have jet packs quite yet, but robotic luggage was a good start.
As soon as I left the signal-jamming nest that was the airport, I felt a buzz in my pocket.
"Hello?"
"It's Alchemy," the voice responded. "I see you're already in China. Good. Finish up your job and I'll send someone down. We've got quite a situation brewing in Tokyo..."
I let myself have a little sigh of satisfaction. At least this flight wouldn't be in second class.
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Comment by Chelsea Howe on February 19, 2010 at 7:22pm
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I think it's great that we keep the harsh realities in perspective and integrate them with our forecasting. Acceptance is a beautiful thing :) I like the links (one of them formatted weirdly - added in an extra "http://www.") - it's crazy to see how interwoven we're all becoming.
That said - my favorite part of this was absolutely the follow along luggage.
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Comment by Nathaniel Fruchter on February 19, 2010 at 10:43pm
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Fixed the link. Also, I have to agree—robotic luggage would be awesome on so many levels.
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Comment by Deborah Cazden on March 8, 2010 at 3:08am
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Why did you stop the story? Keep going, it is great...how do you fix the food crisis? Inquiring minds want to know! :-)
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You'll have to wait until next week for that. :)
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AW....
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Comment by Jean Frankly on April 20, 2010 at 12:27am
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Great story. Thanks.
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