Why you should want to live in the year 3025

From 1025 to 2025, the world has undergone a transformation exceeding 1000% in scale and impact. Given our era’s rapid expansion of knowledge, the changes over the next 1000 years could be 100,000% greater.

One thousand years ago, the people who lived in this world then could not have imagined the world that we live in today. Things we take for granted about life today were beyond the scope of their imagination. Then, those who claimed to have brought civilization to Africa believed women had one extra rib than men because God used one of biblical Adam’s ribs to make Eve. They never checked. Without empirical proof, they believed the sun revolved around the earth. The existence of the new hemisphere, now known as North and South America, was a wild conjuncture for them. The possibility of hundreds of people flying in a large vessel called airplanes for thousands of miles was far-fetched. Then, only witches with brooms could fly. If not that they still fly in Edo State, Nigeria, most of us would not even believe it today.

Life without electricity, air conditioning, vehicles, modern medicine, high technology, and everything else that makes modern life comfortable must be a world in which very few of us alive today would thrive. We hardly look back at where we come from; otherwise, we would appreciate the people who came before us more. We…