1997
Today's Legionarius (our GI's) still walks his way through the Empire's Roads, but does not sleep anymore on bare ground: we give him a comfortable and light mattress, to be brought rolled on his backpack. A large Opificium - here on the right - makes them in continuous, using "Poliuretanus Flexibilis" that is now expanded with NLCD (Naturalis Liquidus Carbonium Dioxidus). Imported equipment is used - in Britannia they have made them for aeons - but it is modified with Italicus genius to improve performances: did you notice the hydraulic drive of conveyors (with automated lubrication of bearings and speed inverter), the horizontal cutting machine (semiautomatic and synchronised with the conveyor), and the vertical cutting marching, cyclette-driven? The production manager (Magister Opus) can finally smile: supplies to the legion cannot stop, and Pax Romana (Roman Peace) yields so well! Honestly, without this cheap labour from Gallia Transalpina and Berberia, we would not know how to make them profitably! On the sides of Tiberin Island - above - roman people enjoy the fine weather, in advance with future time's "Mare Nostrum Concilia" (sure, the Club Mediterraneum): fortunately we do not have here - as yet - severe religions that prohibit these little joys of life, but we do not know what this town will become in the future! 
O tempora, o mores, (Oh times, oh costumes) - a Poet says!