It's officially the first week of 2010!

What will the new year bring? More technology than we know what to do with, that's what.

 

Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, IM, and Texting have already proved standard talking to be so 2000-late. Just last night I was sitting in a room with three people (including myself) playing Scrabble on iPhones while a fourth was talking to someone on speakerphone for all to hear. But that wasn't enough, we had to Skype them as well. I quietly rolled my eyes in disgust.

 

What will the new year bring? Neck problems, blisters, impaired vision and general laziness. Did you see the movie WALL-E? We are so rapidly approaching this society it scares me. Yes, they are a few exceptions out there---the fitness buffs, the anal retentives, the workaholics that will embrace technology into their lives and use it as a positive. But for the rest of us, it's just a easier way to make ourselves obsolete. The only thing technology hasn't and should provide for us is transportation. Flying cars, Star Trek transporter beams, Jetson elevator tubes and dare I say it: hoverboards. Hey Apple, Where's the app for that?

 

I was fictitiously promised a future of all these things (thanks to Walt Disney's Tomorrowland, and tv/movies like Back to the Future 2) and yet here we are in the year 2010---with nothing but wall-sized television sets and reversible bathrobes for dogs.

 

Anyway, that's my cynical view of our so called 'future' we are living in. Guess I'm just bitter that the holidays went by in a blink and that they are officially over for awhile. Thank God I have vacation days or I'd snap.