I have a theory...

My daughter knows some of my theories: dinosaurs aren't what we think they are; prehistoric people focused their eyes differently than we do today; humans of today wouldn't even recognize the physical bodies of their far distant future descendants; stuff like that.

I can now add to this fabled list, with a few that I've developed in the last few years:

1. Humans will develop the ability to fly, which first requires the development of vision that is truly three dimensional (you don't know just how profoundly we are tied to the surface of the Earth), that involves deliberate real-time modification of the visual field, and an emphasis on the phenomenon of buoyancy

2. 'Outer space' - that place where rockets and probes go - is much more 'inner' space than we realize

3. Material/outer expressions (copies, fakes, caricatures) of interior human potentials characterize technology as we know it. Phone tech - especially mobile phone tech - is a clumsy attempt at the reality of ESP; elevators mock levitation; interplanetary probes pretend to be the only 'real' way to travel outside/beyond the body. For instance.

4. Add roughly one thousand years to any 'prediction' of future events in order to get a true perspective on how tech, civilization, and human potential change. If the popular notion (zeitgeist) says 'by 2100 humans will be able to ...', think '3100' and you're much closer not only to the time estimate, but also to the underlying nature of the change itself.

Stay tuned for more theories, all free of charge.