Alias has time-travelled to the year 2050. The world is largely intact and functional. All the false predictions have been postponed. The space aliens are now scheduled to land in 2080. Everything runs on clean, renewable energy. All waste is recycled leaving the earth in pristine condition. Alias steps into the shoes of a knowledgeable man. He has studied hard and he participates in a quiz show.
To his disappointment, all participants are handed a mobile phone. Points are scored by the speed one can look up the answers, for this is the only function contemporary brains are capable of. Most of the human brain has been made redundant and substituted with apparatus. Literature has been phased out and condemned to nostalgia. The first question is: Who monitored the telescreens in George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’? Alias, now a learned man, instantly replies: “Big Brother” and he is disqualified for self-thought, which is considered immoral and un-ethical. He wonders what the world would be like in 2084 and he travels back to 2020. Back home with his wife, they decide to make yet another attempt on having a baby. Not that there was any medical reason for the lack of success in this matter. The problem was that longstanding popular opinion stressed that for having a baby, conditions must be perfect, or else, it would be too hard to handle. As we know, Alias, even though now a learned man, was a follower not a leader. To no surprise, populism was like a religion to him. He had previously convinced his wife to halt starting a family when there was talk about a looming recession. On another instant it was the threat of the zika virus in South America. Then, an earthquake in Japan generated doomsday predictions. Not to mention a volcanic eruption on the other side of the earth. All this was constantly overshadowed by climate change. Alias and his wife certainly didn’t want their child to experience life in a catastrophic, few extra degrees celsius. So, they both fast forwarded their existence back to the future, namely the year 2050. The current seemingly favourable conditions finally allowed them to become happy parents. Gradually it dawned on them that the world was still governed by middle aged, geriatric high school bullies, dictators who didn’t realise they were a thing of the past and should be condemned to the dark history books. Alias and his wife realised having overlooked that law was still abused by corrupt judges, hence ‘crime still ruled’ and they feared for their child’s future.