50 Years

In 2057 there will be more cyclists than motorists on the streets of Williamsburg. The bulk of these cyclists will not be commuting, won't be running errands, but will be training. E-market places will offer work and pay for amateur athletes. Collectively they will buy and sell goods and services to each other from their apts on their own time. In this decadence of time allocation athletes will put the minimum four hours of training needed for various events in their days. Williamsburg will experience a literal facelift. As the street sweepers run more often (a preventative measure against flats) the bodies will become firmer; it's a direct relationship. Proper nutrition will be requisite as food becomes training fuel. And the arrogance of competitors will spill over into a vast marketing ploy for "the best" things. This may sound familiar in our consumer market economy of present but I assure you things will be different. Where we now compete for the largest televisions, SUV's, and all other natural resource monopolizers; the athletes will discover themselves in moments where they would rather buy athlete powered things than machine powered things. Athletes will find that they'd rather work to power their needs in order to burn more calories, enabling them to compete at ever faster speeds. Where they will not be able to make athlete powered things, they'll choose to power their lives with the elements that they train against: wind and water. Fifty years from now not only cars will be powered by salt water ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhXrvCCILw ) but the major necessities of an apt. complex will be fueled by the east river a mere four blocks away. So while the user of an apt. complex in 2007 may be interested in renewing water, the user of the same complex in 2057 will be an uber athletic exploiter of water. The complex will not only recycle gray water but it will connect with the nearby river as it disconnects from the city's power grid. Don't get your computer wet.