The Year 3000 | ✔️

Chapter 1

Paolo and Maria leave for the Andropoli. - One evening in the Gulf of Spezia.

Paolo and Maria left Rome, the capital of the United States of Europe, mounting in the largest of their aerotaches , the one destined for long journeys.

It is a ship moved by electricity. Two comfortable armchairs stand in the middle and with a spring clip they convert into very comfortable beds. In front of them a compass, a table and a dial with three words: motion , heat , light .

Touching a button the aerotaco starts up and the speed is graduated , which can reach 150 kilometers per hour. Touching another button heats the room to the desired temperature, and pressing a third lights up the spacecraft. A simple switch transforms electricity into heat, into light, into movement; as you like.

In the walls of the aerotaco many supplies were condensed, which were enough for ten days. Condensed juices of albuminoids and carbon hydrides, which represent kilograms of meat and vegetables; coobatissimi ethers, which recall the scents of all the most fragrant flowers, of all the most exquisite fruits. A small cellar contained a lava provided with three elixirs, which excite the brain centers, which preside over the maximum forces of life; thought, movement and love.

No need in the aerotaco of machinists or servants, because everyone learns from the first schools to handle it, to raise or lower it according to need and to direct it where you want to go. In a quadrant you can read the kilometers traveled, the temperature of the environment and the direction of the winds.

Paul and Mary had brought a few books with them and among them The Year 3000 , written by a doctor, who had tried to guess what the human world would have been like ten centuries later, with bizarre fantasy.

Paul had told Mary:

- In our long journey I will let you pass the boredom, translating from the Italian the strange fantasies of this ancient writer. I'm really curious how far this prophet has guessed the future. We will certainly read some beautiful ones and laugh heartily.

It is good to know that in the year 3000 for more than five centuries the cosmic language has not been spoken in the world. All European languages ​​are dead and not to mention that of Italy, in order of time the osco, the Etruscan, the Celtic, the Latin and finally the Italian.

The journey that Paolo and Maria are about to take is very long. Departing from Rome, they want to go to Andropoli, capital of the Planetary United States, where they want to celebrate their fruitful marriage, having already been united for five years with the love marriage. They must present themselves to the biological Senate of Andropoli, so that it may be judged by that supreme Council of sciences, whether or not they have the right to transmit the life to other men.

But before crossing Europe and Asia to go to the capital of the world, located at the foot of the Imalaia, where Darjeeling used to be, Paolo wanted his fiancée to see the great Necropolis of Spezia, where the Italians of the year 3000 have in a museum all the memories of the past.

Maria had traveled very little until then. He did not know that Rome and Naples and the thought of the unknown inebriated her. He was only twenty, having given the hand of love to Paul for five years.

The flight from Rome to La Spezia was a few hours and without accidents. They reached it in the evening, and after a brief stop in one of the best hotels in the city, they dug out of the aerotaco a sort of rubber cloak, which is called hydrotach and which, swollen by a plunger, in a few moments converts into a comfortable bar and sure. Also here no need for boatmen and servants. An electric machine, no bigger than a fireplace clock, moves the hydrotach on the waves, with the speed you want.