The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "cornwall overhead". I see a yellow ceiling, covered with little bumps. Butter is dripping from it, and it smells delicious! I quit daydreaming and look back into the crystal ball. I see something decidedly not delicious. It looks like a giant slug, and it's eating all sorts of waste and sludge. It sends out sparks like an electric eel. Ugh, I hope this isn't what my son is growing up to be. The future becomes clear.

The East of England Development Association will soon choose from a number of proposals for their Star of the East project, similar to a project in Cornwall named Eden. There's the Cornwall connection. But why overhead, and what does this have to do with electric slugs? One of the proposals is for a waste-munching power plant, said to look like a giant slug. The plant will also include a wind turbine hovering overhead on a 260 foot glass tower. You can learn this much without a crystal ball.

In the crystal ball, I see mounds of biomass decomposing in the generator. I see a small amount of radioactive material that has gotten mixed in with the household and farm waste! I see a real slug mutating, consuming huge amounts of compost, and growing to move than 50 feet long! It breaks through that walls of the power plant and rampages across the English countryside, devouring, sliming, or shocking everything it comes in contact with! The military is called out, and after a heroic battle in which half of a brigade is wiped out or seriously injured, the beast is subdued and transported to a holding facility for further study.

Can this future be avoided? Wait, did I say that was the future? That's the video game version of the power plant. Electronic Arts will release "Cornwall Overhead: Rise of the Power Slug" (so named even though the plant won't be in Cornwall) for Game Cube, Play Station 2 and X-Box.