I've been enjoying Victorian Pharmacy because it's interesting to see what people thought of diseases, how they coped with them, how healthcare was dealt with etc. The Victorian era was really interesting because so much changed.

But it also makes me think about what people in the future will think of how we lived. We look back at how people lived 150 years ago and it seems so primitive: no cars, no TV, no welfare state etc. So in 150 years time people will look back at how we lived and think it's so primitive and they couldn't have lived in the early 21st century.

The trouble with living in it at the moment is I can't imagine how people's lives will change. There are plenty of people predicting how technology will change etc, but it's more a question of how all the new inventions and discoveries in the next 150 years will affect the people living then.

They'll look back and wonder how we didn't know that and how we survived without this, but who knows what this and that might be? I think I'd like to go to the future and have a look. Although would it make the present seem primitive and unliveable in?

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