Two Thousand Meters

When asked to imagine our world in 100 years, teenagers of my age and even younger children normally conceptualize it to develop in two opposite directions. Firstly, technology is supposed to totally take over, as there will always be skyscrapers in one's eyesight or flying cars gliding across the sky in countless directions and the like. Or, for those with deeper thoughts, our beloved environment is going to be entirely ruined. The air, which would be overly heated by greenhouse effect must be filled with dust and foulness. Water in rivers will darken and become undrinkably toxic. The land may well dry out with cracks appearing everywhere. And so, so on...

Apart from them, I myself wonder: Why not both?

With those little thoughts, my imagination starts to produce a story...
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Two Thousand Meters
Author: Irina Bougainvillea
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