Time Machine With Words

            Let’s face it.  At some point, at some point you’ve dreamed about what epic technology we will have in the future and if you haven’t, you clearly don’t have a life.  I’m going to help everybody out by attempting to construct a time machine with words.  Using words as a building block, I can create a machine that will hopefully create an accurate image of the future.

            One cool technology that will be commonplace will be three dimensional printing.  Believe or not, we already have a three dimensional printer at Hanover High School, which I have used for CAAPS class.  It works by melting plastic and shooting it on to a surface, where it hardens.  By adding layer after layer, it can create a three dimensional figure.  Even a recent comic strip, Dilbert, had an interesting joke about three-dimensional printing.  That said, this technology is still limited.  It only prints three-dimensional objects with plastic, and it is amazingly slow.  It is also expensive, but we can expect the price to come down soon.  According to an article I read, we will all have one of these in our houses by 2015.

            But perhaps one of the most exciting experiences you will have while you vacation in the future would be spending your vacation the way we do in the present: at a museum.  Apparently, a Japanese scientist is attempting to bring a woolly mammoth to life, and believe it or not, he has a realistic chance of success.  Using the same method we have used with sheep, he can take the mammoth DNA and implant it into a cell.  He then needs to find a parent that is similar to the mammoth (he has chosen an elephant), and place the fertilized egg in the parent.  People are saying that this could happen within the next four years.

            We can also expect to see hand held devices that can sequence DNA within the next seven or so years.  These devices will have obvious uses for doctors, but what will be even more interesting is that we will be able to look at our own DNA.  Thanks to this handheld devices, people will be introduced to themselves for the first time in the history of the human race.

            If you consider these crazy claims to be unrealistic, you are only half right.  My claims are certainly crazy, but they are far from unrealistic, they just appear that way to your narrow mind.  To prove my point, I will use my time machine’s spare words to take you to another location: the past.  Let’s imagine we are in the 1500s.  You walk up to a peasant, and he immediately starts yelling something you can’t understand at you.  Unfortunately, my time machine lacks a universal translator, but I can already guess what he is saying.  He thinks you’re a wizard, because of what you’re wearing.  Then you show him your technology.  Let’s use a walkie talkie as an example.  To a man in this time period, it appears as if a voice magically escapes from the device.  But how could this be?  Were could we have found a person small enough to fit inside of the walkie talkie?  Then another person who is walking by suddenly drops dead from a heart attack.  But since we are from the future, we wield wizard like power.  Using the emergency kit in the back of this time machine, we deliver an electrical pulse to the heart and it starts beating again.  We may consider this normal, but our medieval friend is stunned by the fact that we have, quite literally, brought a dead man back to life.  But both of these devices are trumped by an incredible device that can generate a glowing, silvery substance.  This device illuminates what can not be seen.  Before meeting us, our medieval friend called this impossible, but we call it a flashlight.

            Let me use the last reserves of words in my time machine to remind you of a famous quote.  “Any piece of moderately advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  This quote proves…  that…… because…….so………

            Help!!!........machine…………..words…………none left……………….stuck……………..1500s