I’m not one for New Year resolutions. I might be, but I’m a little forgetful. I forget to make them, then I forget what they were anyway. Perhaps the fact that I don’t make such resolutions could be taken in some way as proof of the fact that I am essentially a happy chap. Happy enough not to require a resolution to change my life in any significant way. Or maybe not having a list of resolutions shows instead that I am lazy. It’s difficult to tell.

Looking ahead at 2007 I find myself amazed that we’re here already. When I was a young boy reading books about the future complete with brightly colored illustrations, ‘the future’ was the year 2000. In the year 2000 the world was going to be an entirely different place filled with technologies far beyond that which surrounded me in my day-to-day life of the late 1970’s. It wasn’t going to be ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th century‘ or ‘Star Trek‘, but it might just be somewhere between that and ‘Space 1999‘ where humanity was already zipping around space interacting with funny ladies that could change into birds and other animals in a puff of cosmic magic. Back then from my animal wallpapered bedroom with my mono record player and AM-MW radio on which I could often hear the music of ABBA and Boney-M, the future as close as it might have been, was still a long way off…. [Click here to continue reading this article at 'Meanwhile']