I’ve been time traveling recently and thought I’d drop a few nuggest of what the future looks like:

1. Transportation – Heads Up Displays (HUDs) are common place, providing enhanced information (nightvision, traffic updates, etc.) to a generation that are “Digital Natives” versus those of us who are “Digital Immigrants”. In high traffic areas, the onboard computers network within the MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) with other cars and optimize speed and routes.
2. Medical – building off of some early advances, doctors are now able to artificially regenerate skin and minor appendages using cells from the patient. Limb and organ regeneration with mechanical assistance (think: heart values and controllers wrapped within artificial tissue.
3. Computing – building on the growth of everything becoming a networked computer (iPods, cell phones, even DVD/BluRay players), computing power and network access is rather ubiquitous. Wearable computers are fashionable and usable without impeding what we would think of as “normal” everyday activities.
4. Entertainment – movies are still a mainstay, but now they make use of digital actors where actors from the past are digitally inserted and interact almost naturally with live actors.
5. Travel – there is a decent presence on the Moon’s surface and regular commuter trips shuttle people and supplies back and forth. Water and hydroponics work well and support a minor “city”.

Time to get a few cold ones with the fellas down at the Leaping Peacock and relax for a bit. Maybe next trip will be into the past to help us remember what we’ve tried before. Maybe I’ll try one of ‘Puter’s scope and sodas…but I heard he puts little, frilly umbrellas in them.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.