Future Technologies

The current book I'm working on happens a few thousand years in the future. I'm have a great time imagining what life would be like. I tend to view future technologies as wish fulfillment. Like my car will never need gas because it runs indefinitely, and when something does break on it, it automatically lets the service people know and I can choose the appointment I want on a view screen on my dashboard, which then beams to my dayplanner so I won't forget. :-)

Ah. Wouldn't that be nice?

Now, I'm pretty sure such things will be possible someday. Heck, most of that is possible now, it's just that we don't have the infrustructure and money to devote to it yet.

But some of the stuff I come up with, who knows if it will be possible. So I at least try to make it logical so it seems like it should be possible.

For instance, in my vampire book, they live on another world on the dark side, so it is very cold. The cold wouldn't kill them, but it is uncomfortable, so over thousands of years the technology developed to the point where their estates are protected by massive domes to keep them warm. There is no moon that shines in the sky, and our hero vampire misses seeing the Earth's moon, so he has his dome "project" an image of the Earth's moon. It slowly makes its way across the dome to give the illusion of night passing.

Now who knows if there's a clear material that could be developed that could project an image of the moon on itself. I know they can do windows that darken when electricity runs through it, but not windows that can project like a television. I'm sure it's possible, but to my knowledge it hasn't been invented yet.

Ah well. I say it's possible, so it is. That's part of the fun in being a writer!