A quick guide to 2020 for time travellers from the past

A new decade has arrived, so for the benefit of any time travellers who have came to visit the future (our present) from the past (your present), here's a quick guide to life in the year 2020...

1) The 'internet'

Harry the Hedgehog can now use the 'internet' to let all
his old school friends know what he had for dinner!

One of the biggest inventions of the future is that all the computers in the world are now linked up together via something called the 'internet'.

To explain the concept, this 'internet' can be used to access information on any subject imaginable, such as science, medicine, history, and other amazing discoveries about the world we live in! In effect, the internet is like having access to a massive million volume encyclopedia of information right at your fingertips!

People don't use the internet for this, though. Most people just use it to look at funny cat videos and to show your old school mates what you had for dinner.

2) Language (part 1)

I'm sure time travellers from the past will be pleased to know that language has now been updated in the future, and we no longer use offensive language like 'burglar'.

Thankfully, in the future, offensive words like burglar have been replaced with the more politically correct term 'unwanted house visitor', as this has been judged to be less offensive to burglars. After all, we wouldn't want to offend burglars!

'Unwanted house visitor'

Er, sorry ... I mean we wouldn't want to offend burglars unwanted house visitors who break into other people's homes to steal their possessions and possibly murder them.

Sadly, in the future we don't have flying cars and jet-packs,
but we do have ... bottled water!

3) Water palaver!

In the olden days people had to make do with water from a tap. However, in the future people can now buy water in bottles! Wow!

Better still, you can buy water in different brands! Yes, you read that right. Different brands ... of water.

4) News flash: Smoking discovered to be bad for your health!

Smoking kills.
One of the discoveries made in the future.

I used to work with a woman whose dad unfortunately suffered many decades ago from breathing problems. So he went to his doctor, and his doctor advised him to start smoking cigarettes to 'help improve his breathing'. Guess what, though?  Incredibly, it turns out his doctor was wrong!

Yes, as crazy as it sounds, in the future doctors have now discovered that smoking is actually bad for your lungs, and doesn't help improve your breathing after all. Who'd have guessed it!? Certainly not doctors from the olden days, that's for sure!

5) Watches

Modern watches come with hundreds of features!
And for the benefit of time travellers from the past,
you can even use your watch to tell the time!

In the olden days you used your watch to tell the time, but nowadays things have moved on.

For example, watches in the future now come with loads of amazing additional features, such as:

* You can use your watch to monitor your fitness using a heart-rate sensor!
* You can buy things in stores using your watch using something called 'contactless payment'!
* Your watch can notify you if you leave your lights on at home!
* And believe it or not, you can even switch the lights off using your watch!
* Some hotels even have an 'app' which lets you use your watch as a hotel key!

Don't ask me what the time is though, as I couldn't tell you because my watch is currently performing a software update.

6) Language (part 2)

Finally, time travellers from the past who are offended by the term 'gingerbread men' can relax safe in the knowledge that in the future such offensive language is a thing of the past...

Gingerbread men persons.

I'm sure we'll all sleep sounder for knowing that such offensive language as 'gingerbread men' is now a thing of the past!

...but wait! Ginger persons? What about blonde haired persons? What about brown haired persons? As a non-ginger haired person, I'm offended! #NotReally

That was a brief summary of the year 2020 for any time travellers from the past, but if you're a young person from 2020 who doesn't remember the past (because you weren't born then), then the following blog posts may be more appropriate for you:
The 'Are you officially old' quiz? (part 1)
The 'Are you officially old' quiz? (part 2)