20/40: 12 Short Stories Foretelling Life in the Year 2040.

20/40: 12 Short Stories Foretelling Life in the Year 2040.

WHAT WILL THE WORLD BE LIKE IN 2040? Rambunctious Supreme Court Justices squabble publicly on live television and bring in a Madame Defarge to cast the deciding vote on difficult cases. A beleaguered Netflix executive finds that he has to take extreme measures to save a popular new series. An astrophysicist runs into a sexy young woman at a Sunday religious ceremony and manages to teach her something new and startling about the universe. An NBA star decides to team up with other top players to form a new professional league. A Pentagon general realizes that he has to move quickly after the Chinese government embarks on a plan to diminish America’s naval power in the Pacific and wreck its economy. A young actress leaves the glamour of Hollywood to search for a life she thinks she has been missing. Two ninety-five-year-olds find love in a nursing home until science interferes. 12 Short Stories About the Future to Intrigue, Enlighten And Occasionally Shock You