Here we sit, 1000 years from now, a slew of offworld colonies establishing their own subcultures.

Where is heaven, hell, or nirvana?

Belief systems of many sorts dominate the news – celebrity worship, pop culture worship – as they always have.

Between your time and now, global weather changes on Earth reconfigured political boundaries out of necessity.

Naysayers and doomsday futurists continue their struggle for the attention of the masses.  Humour is lost in translation.

Computing systems tap our brains for networked problem-solving.

The legal definition of a body has cycled along with public opinion.

Brain-machine interfaces have allowed crime prevention authorities to stay even with or just one step behind inventive criminal organisations.

Our personalities now live forever through expansion of the range of stimuli sensors that define us, including social media bots that absorbed our ancestors’ online postings and begat virtual selves similar to but not exactly like ourselves.

Old race and class based arguments gave way to genetically-engineered beings adapted to specific environmental conditions, including aquatic humans and humans designed to live on nonEarth planetary bodies.  General adaptability is considered technologically backward, regardless of one’s genetic heritage.

The top 0.0001% of the population has more wealth than the remaining 99.9999%.

However, unlike your time, wealth is now measured on a happiness scale rather than a monetary one – the obsessive collection of money and objects was outlawed a long time ago, with medical advances allowing doctors to remove hoarding behaviour before birth.  In addition to genocide and geocide, suicide is a fully-recognised form of population control.

Sexual taboos no longer exist because of species-wide birth control mandates.  The ratio of gender subtypes is carefully controlled.

Politicians still use smoke and mirrors to motivate crowds for the personal gain of politicians and their cronies.

The E-Book of Galactic Records includes a section of how long different genetically-engineered humans can survive in the vacuum of space, as well as the fastest speed at which a whole body survived unharmed in transit from one space station to another.

The first human composed of antiparticles conceives and gives birth to an antiparticle baby.

Dark matter and dark energy were just more layers of the intertwined multiuniverse system we continue to uncover and describe for the next generation of scientific explorers.

Destruction of a human body in the activity of sport is forbidden, creating underground bloodsport leagues, while the majority watch and play sports with virtual teams of players who appear to have social relationships with virtual actors in other areas of mass media.

Until genetic specialisation reached critical mass, removal of children from large public educational institutes was granted only as long as the children received a required daily exposure to mass media and passed a yearly sub/culture test.

Some genetically-engineered humans can no longer speak, see or hear like humans of your time, having no need for those communication methods in modern society. Brain wave pattern amplification and attenuation reduced the necessity for archaic sensors and instruments that tended to get in the way of efficient socialisation.

Thus, new symbologies replaced old vocabularies and created a separation between the species that performed plays, wrote books, played musical instruments and shouted verbal commands on ball fields and the new species genotypes that excel in skills unimagined in your time.

That’s all the news for today.  Time for my half-sol of meditation.