You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for?
I struggle with these “3 wishes” scenarios most of the time. I tired to stay in the spirit of the prompt; rather than wishing for more wishes. Even though my first wish would really make my other two wishes take place, I still listed them as 3 separate things. I’m really flashing my nerd cred with this one. Bear with me. Don’t worry it will make sense…
Wish 1 – I want transporters, like they have on Star Trek.
Can you imagine how easy travel would be if we could beam from one place to another? No more long car rides, no more plane rides. When you get a set time for your vacation from work or school, you would be able to use ALL of that time for vacation. You could go from one place to the next within a few seconds! I would be visiting with Kid 1 all the time!
Wish 2 – I want food replicators, like they have on, yep, Star Trek.
Star Trek tries to apply as much science as they can to their science-fiction. They explain the aforementioned transporters as converting matter into energy, then reassembling that beam of energy into matter in a different location.
By Star Trek: the Next Generation the writers took their fictionalized transporter technology to the next step. If you could turn matter into energy, you just can’t you turn energy into other things…like food? Show runners use this extension of their fictionalized technology to explain how humanity was able to end hunger on Earth.
Imagine being able to turn energy into food. Or resequencing a broken chair or an old car into food.
If you can turn people into energy back; and you can turn one form of matter into another, this would lead to…
Wish 3 – No more Greed
Matter / energy conversion would make money worthless. With matter replication, we wouldn’t need to buy anything; we would be able to replicate whatever they needed. If people could have anything they wanted or needed, people would no longer be greedy. Materialism as we know it would cease to exist and a new Age of Enlightenment would begin. Instead of having the nicest car or house, people would dedicate their lives to improving themselves. People would actually want to learn stuff again. They would dedicate their lives to improving thee quality of life for every one.
What would you wish for if you had 3 genie wishes?
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