Let me impose something upon you. What will Tillamook look like in 2116? A hundred years used to sound like a forever chunk of time to me, what separated the modern world from the old, but as I grow older every day I realize now that a century is but a small component in the great human experience. In 2116 much of the usable pasture land will have been long reclaimed by a rising and everly acidic sea. Salt marsh and estuary will take the place of field and pasture flooding centuries of local livelihood. What industry still remains is but a shadow of itself but a hundred years prior. Tillamook’s namesake, its precious dairy industry consolidated. Market and societal forces push the need for dairy products from a federally subsidized necessity to cut-rate industry; only the wealthy survive. Over time the smaller farms were bought out, crowded and pushed into oblivion. The only survivors were the automators, the ones who held ba...