By Jason M. Vaughn
Here in glorious 2059, things are a bit different than they were
back in, say, 2008. How so? Well, for one thing, a Starbucks coffee
might have run you three dollars, back then, but now you can be
sitting at home and just think of a Starbucks coffee, and
your nanounit will “build” it for you and then automatically charge
thirty dollars to your account! 
Back in the neo “Dark Ages” of old 2008, you could only
dream of having sex with androids, or watch actors
pretending to have sex with androids in movies; heck, even just
five years ago, sex with androids was still mostly frowned upon,
and more painful, really, than pleasurable. But now, in 2059,
everybody’s having sex with androids (even other
androids!), and at worst it only causes a mild pinching…and
degrades the android.
In case you’re wondering, we don’t use the word cool
anymore (“cool” is so 2055). We use awesome now
in most situations where cool would’ve been applied, except when
we’re talking about the temperature: then we say “chilly” or “cold”
or, in certain eco-important situations, “under-warm.” Some
outsiders have recently started using awesome to describe
chilly weather (“It’s awesome out,” they’ll say, or “Man, I wish it
was just a little less awesome today,” or “Yesterday, it was so
awesome I had to wear a jacket!”), but these people are hardly ever
taken seriously, and, in some cases, they’ve even been banned from
having their own talk shows.
Yep, 2059 is pretty fascinating, if you ask me. Oprah is still
alive, and editing her magazine from the confines of a gelatin
cocoon she shares with Dr. Oz and gal-pal, Gayle King. Madonna, and
The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince,
have just collaborated on a new album entitled Still Mostly
Human (Madonna’s pseudo-butt looks great!). (cont.)
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Waking Up
My smart house gently wakes me from slumber with the same
calming accuracy that it lulled me to sleep with the night before.
My days of harmful sleeping pills and sleepless nights are
comfortably in my past. Light is diffused through the room as the
intelligent windows de-shade – the temperature of the room slowly
climbs. 
During the night, my sleep is monitored and micro-adjustments to
my sleeping position via my smart-bed and temperature and humidity
controls are made constantly. My breathing, heart-rate, sound and
movement patterns are analyzed by an increasingly sophisticated
algorithm. Aromatherapy is used as well as sound therapy to
facilitate falling and staying in a powerful and restorative deep
sleep. During my deepest sleep advanced learning programs are
played at optimal levels so the time is used to greatest advantage.
I step out of bed and feel great. (cont.)
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By Jason M. Vaughn
The world was rocked this morning by the death of America’s
first “immortal,” Madeline Marie Samms, who had only three months
ago reached her 175th birthday. At around 6:45 a.m., a piano was
accidentally dropped on her head as she stepped out of her
first-floor Wyandotte County apartment on her way to the market.
The irony is that she had once credited this daily walk as the
biggest reason for  her longevity. It was even more important, she had felt, than
her nightly pink-lemonade-flavored telomerase cocktail, her weekly
stem-cell injections, and her numerous casual-sex encounters.
“People can’t go a measly few blocks to get their organics?”
she’d once wondered, incredulously shaking her head. “They gotta
have ‘em delivered by one of those good-for-nothin’
robots? What’s this world comin’ to? That’s what I wanna
know. ‘Cause them robots are kinda scary, if you ask me. I mean,
why do their eyes have to be red like that? Why does one
of their hands always have to be a claw hand? Why on earth
do they gotta have a laser saw hangin’ off their shoulder
at all times? For God sakes,” she continued, “what do they need
teeth for? And just why do those teeth have to be all
pointy, like shark teeth? You know, one of them things
tried to help me across the street one time. I had to beat him off
with my purse. Thought I was bein’ attacked.” (cont.)
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Hello All & Welcome to Scenario Land!
Ever since I got hip to the reality of accelerating change I’ve been working to bridge that understanding to the masses. My string of efforts have included blogging, working with the Acceleration Studies Foundation on their powerful conference series and Metaverse Roadmap Project:, pitching TV shows about the future (in addition to Augmented Reality space adventures – think Big Brother meets Space Balls), and co-launching MemeBox with fellow futurist Jeff Hilford.
And now the real fun begins…
This blog, Scenario Land, is the culmination of my burning drive to make futurism more accessible to the people who just don’t have the time nor the interest to pore through awesome books like Mega Trends, The Fourth Turning, and The Singularity is Near. The intent is to strike a balance between entertainment and technical trend analysis, establishing a portal where creative and critical thinkers alike can engage the future together.
It’s a place where you can fearlessly share your thoughts on the world of tomorrow. Whether your strength lies in narrative story-telling, essay writing, illustration, composite imaging, comics, video, machinima or elsewhere, Scenario Land is a broadcast platform that can amplify your visions of the future. If you’ve got a big imagination and a desire to debate the road ahead, this is the place to make that happen.
I plan on using it to evolve my simulation of the future and sincerely hope you will do the same.
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October 15 2008 / by Alvis Brigis
Category: Security Year: 2016 Rating: 3 Hot
A viral marketing campaign unlike any other.
Despite the Second Great Depression, the early 20-teens saw tremendous advances in communication, agriculture, fuel-efficiency, medicine and especially robotics. By 2016, the resurgent world world had become saturated with interactive projected interfaces, smart light-weight vehicles of all shapes and sizes, farm-bots and a variety of human Add-ons that both solved serious illnesses and enabled amazing  new capabilities. It was not uncommon to encounter citizens with artificial fingers, eyes, hearts, livers and even memory sticks.
Most prevalent and readily visible were prosthetic lower legs that replaced the tibia, ankle and foot. At first these had replaced the damaged limbs of injured human athletes, soldiers, accident victims, and those whose bones had simply worn down, but as the non-cyborg population came to appreciate the tremendous running, jumping and long-distance transport abilities that these Add-ons enabled, a growing number of perfectly healthy citizens decided that they too could benefit by upgrading their limbs. The efficiency increase was simply too great to pass up. Instead of buying a car or leasing certain bots, a person could accomplish the same through elective surgery and incorporation of the iRobot / Stryker co-manufactured lower legs.
As such modifications became all the rage it appeared that humans were rapidly heading toward total body replacement. But then, at 4pm EDT, November 21, 2016 the Crazy Legs virus struck, forever altering the public perception of Add-ons and the prospect of a fully mechanized near-term future.
Perpetrated by anonymous white hat hacktivist “Marty McFly”, Crazy Legs took advantage of a vulnerability in the Ubuntu Body System short-range encryption signal. The blue-tooth signal connecting the artificial legs to the Brain-Ware was compromised and replaced with new instruction codes. The result was an illegal social choreography that reached a never-before seen scale.
Precisely at 4pm every human outfitted with the iRobot/Stryker ver. 2.2 lower limbs started dancing… uncontrollably.
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October 15 2008 / by memebox / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Other Year: 2008 Rating: 3
MemeBox is proud to announce the launch of Scenario Land. Edited by futurist and Future Blogger co-editor Alvis Brigis, the new site tackles the future head-on through a provocative blend of speculative fiction and plausible trend-informed scenarios.
“Striking the balance between entertainment and empirical futurism, Scenario Land is a place where creative and critical thinkers alike can engage the future,” says Brigis, “Whether your strength lies in narrative story-telling, essay writing, illustration, composite imaging, comics, video, machinima or elsewhere, Scenario Land is a great outlet for sharing and debating visions of our future.”
As a branch of MemeBox’s FutureBlogger network, Scenario Land overlaps with other future-focused sister blogs including The Energy Roadmap (theenergyroadmap.com) and Future of Gadgets (launching soon). This unique system allows Scenario Land to retain a unique voice while also amplifying reach and inviting valuable perspectives from other niche focus areas.
“Change is accelerating, making it increasingly difficult to envision the futures ahead of us,” points out MemeBox CEO Jeff Hilford, “So our goal here at MemeBox is to create a rich, interactive playground that allows you to explore various trends and tomorrows. Scenario Land is a key part of our growing ecosystem where people can fearlessly speculate about and debate all things future.”
If you’ve got a big imagination for the future and want to contribute your thoughts about a rapidly changing world, Scenario Land is the place to get it all out and spread your powerful ideas.
Be sure to check out Alvis’ Welcome Post to readers and enjoy!
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