Last year I wrote a long post about this blog's 18th anniversary. I kind of covered it all there looking backwards over all these years keeping up this blog. As you know, I've definitely had varied results each year, sometimes a lot more regularly than others. This year I wanted to look forwards instead to the year 2042. (How sci fi does that sound?) I will be almost 78 then, will I still be making stuff and blogging about it? I hope so!
Will blogger still exist 19 years from now? It seems so improbable that it's remained for these 19 years, doesn't it? With the way various tech platforms come and go in and out of our lives (do you remember live journal?) it doesn't seem possible that blogger will still be around in nineteen *more* years. Maybe it will still exist but be in a different form. I could see it being integrated within other apps we all regularly use. Will there still be the digital divide between Apple products and everything else? Or will there be some industry standard imposed by actual US government regulation? Don't laugh, it could happen--maybe.
Here's to hoping that there is still some way for non-journalists to write like this publicly in nineteen years. And even more generally, here's to hoping we all make it to the year 2042 with the ability to connect, converse, and share beauty and creativity. Thanks for coming along on the ride with me, I appreciate it more than I can express here.
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