Predictions

                                           

                                                       The future, fifty years from now

Before you start to read this blog that I titled "The future, fifty years from now" about my predictions, I want to explain you the reasons of them. My predictions are influenced for two facts: my knowledge about computer science and also because I am a person who likes to read a lot about science fiction. Here I will give you some of them.

                                      

By 2065 all global financial transactions will be conducted through Bitcoin (crypto currencies). It is because more people are going to buy using internet and they will require a safest new kind currency and it will be the bitcoin. It is because the credit cards will not be accepted anymore on the web, because they proved to be risky and easily cloned by hackers. If you did now about that and you want to try to use this kind of currency, I want to give you an advice. You must have to write down your user‘s name and password because if you lose them, you will lose all your bitcoins, because there isn’t way to recover it.

                                  

By 2065 computer programming will be considered a core skill required in almost of all jobs. We are required to use new applications in our phones, computers and tablets and we are giving feedback and making improvements to these applications and those are the first steps to program. People will need to know how to do that to get a job.

                                   

By 2065 we will seen a growing number of highways designated for driverless-vehicle only. This year Google built a driverless smart car and it was tested on the highways of California and passed it pretty well. The uses of this kind of vehicles will be in the transportation of goods and services. Companies such as DHL and UPS will use them to transport all the packages to the different stores or offices to be delivered by men only on the last stage of the process. In 2017 Germany’s government is going to build a track in the highway designated for electrical or hybrid vehicles to allow them to travel longer distances.

                                   

By 2065 we will see wireless power to light up our houses and all the electrical appliances and equipment such as TVs, computers, tablets, etc. Today, we are able to charge our phones without use any wire, we just leave the phone on a kind of pad and it stars to charge. In the future, we will not see more wires through the house however our electrical equipment will work normally.

An amazing trip

One of my happiest memories has to be when I was eleven and I took my backpack to travel with my friend Douglas from Limon to Talamanca. We decided to do that trip by ourselves. We wanted to be backpackers to travel free of schedules and also we had a month to complete the journey.



I met Douglas at the school and we were scouts from different units. We always did long trips and we loved to walk a lot, we used to walk together every day about 2 miles to get to our school. We walked that distance for 9 months and when decided to be backpackers we knew we had the physical condition to do it.



The first day of our vacation we spent the entire time planning the trip and searching for options to stay. We took a bus to Limon and from there we started to walk to Talamanca to find a Douglas’s friends who lived near Panama and he was a scout too.




The first day in Limon we spent the entire time in the ocean, we played cards and talked in the evening and that night we spent it in our tents near the beach.




The days after that we walked by hours near the beaches such as Cahuita and Puerto Viejo and Manzanilllo and we spent the nights there. Five days after that we left the beaches to start our journey to the mountain.



We walked by ten days to reach our goal; it was to find the house of Douglas’ friend in Talamanca near Panama.

Ttraveling solo

                                                               Traveling alone

Since I am a high school student, I used to spend my vacations with my friends, we used to ride our bikes for hours to visit new places and cities. One time my uncle drove us to Perez Zeledon, when we were there, we put our bikes down and we started to ride them toward San Jose. My uncle was behind us all the time. I already have an amazing experience, which I want to share because I am sure I will carry with me until my last days because I was doing something good but I was sad because I did not have any of my friends to enjoy and share that: my first flight to the United States.

Though traveling is not a big deal for me today, before my trip to the United States, I used to be a homebody. I had friends to hang out with, several hobbies, and I felt completely comfortable spending my vacations in my hometown or sometimes even on my block without going anywhere.

The situation changed when one day a person came to my class and she talked about an exchange program to visit the United States. (The Work Travel program provides foreign students with an opportunity to live and work in the United States during their vacation from college or university to experience and to be exposed to the people and way of life in the United States). I will not describe how she managed to persuade me to join but she did a good job using pictures and videos where some students talked about that wonderful experience.

This was not my first time outside of Costa Rica, however it was my first flight to the United States and I was alone, without any friend close to me, so I was sad. When the plane was flying over the United States, I was turning my head in all directions through the little window of the plane to admire the buildings and mountains. Unfortunately, the weather was foggy most the time, even despite this fact, I still enjoyed the view.



On my first day there, I stayed in a big hotel and it had a restaurant on the top but it was amazing because, it rotates all the time. Few days after that, I took another flight to Nevada where I was hired to work. It was a hotel near Sierra Nevada where I learned to practice snowboarding and it became my hobby there. I used to practice every weekend and I met some new friends from other countries.