Le Future

So, years from now, will our childrens children use BrainWiki to scan the history of the year 2006, and laugh at our feeble technology? Will our children say "Daddy, can you tell us about when music came on CDs, and the internet was only on computers?" "Why yes little Timmy, we had to log on at 56K a second! Why, back then, that was good enough for a few WoW patch updates, with enough leftover to have a blurry webchat with my friends." Will music downloading become a thing of the past, not because people have seen the error of their ways, but because all music will be created by one big computer and streamed out through the internet at great speeds? Will virtual reality iron out all of the sci-fi/horror wrinkles to let us interact with each other? Will iPods store four thousand GBs and remain the size of a frozen pea? Will we all have our own TV station online, where our thoughts and visions are broadcast over the net? Will cellphones be able to look after our children?

I don't know what creepy things the future has in store for us. But one element will surely thrive in such an environment. Pornography. I guess that's all we have to cling to as the world changes around us.

PS I don't know if we can keep posting, or when the Blog ceases to exist, but I just got back from Hawkes Bay and let me tell you, I certainly look back at Dial Up and laugh.