This is my second story written for XPRIZE. I am a member of their Science Fiction Advisory Council, serving with many other well-known visionaries and futurists. In a partnership with Japanese airline ANA, XPRIZE asked its science fiction writers to each create a story about a specific passenger in a specific seat on an ANA jet that somehow jumps twenty years in the future. The aim was for us to showcase marvelous changes that might be possible in the next twenty years.
Then I learned that a very close friend was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, and I had to write this story.