now…what + where?
With yesterday’s corona update delivered by the prime minister there are obviously lot’s of questions and concerns with some clarity needed! ‘Confusion’ reigns…but I digress…so as I have not been able to go on my usual round of shops, my mind drifted to some pictures of places I took before the lockdown…does anyone remember that…? I wonder…as I’m starting to forget…well I was supposed to be going to Vegas this month…and I can tell you I was so looking forward to it…joyously rambling around all those lovely thrift stores…my mind boggles at the possibilities…so that is one place I will be going next year..hopefully if all being well that is!
I don’t think I’m jumping ahead when I think of ‘going places’ but practically how is it going to work? It seems tourism of recent times may well be a thing of the past…think of the crowds that comes with tourism how will that be managed? Will more places have to close down due to being unable to social distance? It seems that the days of packed tourist hot spots will be a distant memory (I know some people will say hear hear to that!) and it will be a very long time in returning to how it was before (is that even possible or desirable now..?) and of course it’s a huge industry bringing in millions each year to each respective country…oh dear…
I don’t have any real suggestions or crazy ideas about this apart from more virtual reality…when I was younger I was pumped with ideas such as teleporting (that will eliminate airport queues..!) what I mean is as a child of the 70’s a much longer view on science fiction ideas coming reality was a given…like hell yes there will be no longer car travel as everyone will have their own spaceship…! I mean that’s what programmes like the Tomorrow People were about, yes it was very ambitious but a number of ‘crazy’ ideas raised in sc-fi novels + films have been realised. Though I am very disappointed over all from what I was ‘led’ to believe from the media during my childhood, I feel at times we are not moving forward in terms of space travel…oh well it’s looking a lot more urgent that these issues are addressed…I wait with baited breathe…