Were living in The Future. Escape from New York and the Judgement day from Terminator took place in the future of 1997, Escape from LA took place in the future of the year 2000, and Back to the Future II happens this October. Robots that clean our houses have been commercially available to the public for over a decade, anybody who feels like it can purchase their very own flying robot for less than the cost of a pair of jeans, we can physically store digital copies of every single book ever written, ever, in the space about 4 apartments (and this size gets smaller every day), theres actually a hoverboard (granted, not the best ride ever, but I dont think were exactly getting drink service and wi-fi at four feet above Kitty Hawk.) VR is finally becoming viable and immersive looking (and you, too, can buy it), people whove lost limbs can have them replaced with fully-articulated, mind-controlled robotic replacements, I can scan an object, send the scan across the world in a second, and another person can reproduce that object (closest to teleportation weve got for now), and, again, robots. Robots everywhere! Sure theres all the usual terrible shit that people do each other, and all the usual terrible things that just happen, and I likely wont live to see us get off this rock or have my consciousnesses uploaded, but we all live longer and healthier, we have greater freedom to modify our bodies, minds, and value systems, less people die in wars now than ever before, we can customize, modify, and create unique living organisms; and I, for one, want to see the the new weird world we live in takes some truly unexpected and bizarre turns. Now if youll excuse me, Im going to go ride an electric motorcycle through a glowing city of a million people who speak hundreds of languages, to a spindly thousand-foot steel tower responsible for transmitting so many of our words around the world to one another, to go look at mind-bogglingly huge exploding nuclear reactions millions of miles away. Cheers!
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:31:29 +0000
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