In the movies humankind always ends up being waited on hand and foot by robots or blown up by them. What does the future hold for us? People now are temporarily attaching Bluetooth pieces to their ears so they can talk on their cell phones 24/7. Others are spending up to 11 hours of a 24-hour day on the computer communicating through AIM, MySpace.com and Facebook.com. I don’t think we will need robots in the future – or even the physical earth.
I often wonder how many calls a day permit buying an $80 Bluetooth headset for my cell phone. Only about one person calls me every week. I don’t think that’s enough. These people we see walking around with their headsets on must be getting like a billion calls every two minutes (500 million a minute). I am, however, an avid user of the computer. I’ve dabbled in all things from the not so legit to gaming that 10 years ago would have made a hard drive melt. At an increasing rate we are getting sucked into these electronics and spending less time in the actual world. Could life as or in a computer be part of our future?
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