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The Future is When It All Hovers
Self-driving cars. Dancing robots. A grill-mounted fry-cook arm that can flip a thousand burgers a day.
Are we there yet? Can we say we're in the sci-fi future?
Not until it's hovering. All of it. Even your pen and the trash can next to your desk.
Every day I read a new piece of tech news and am blown away by what is developing. The funny thing to me is that almost no one seems to notice, and it's hard to track everything even if you're fascinated by all the developments. At a glance it seems silly, that it's such a sci-fi staple. Some long-term brain damage inflicted by the Jetsons on a society at large. Really though it may be more significant.
If we have the power for everything to hover, then we probably have the power to get all the essentials done too. In a world where oil power and nuclear facilities are such points of strife, it's comforting to think of a future in which humanity has it all covered. The lights are all on even if nobody is home--and who cares. It's limitless!
It's something I played around with in my debut novel Terms of Service. In Neotopia, power is so plentiful that even the skyscrapers are floating. It's needless and overt, and the ruler of the city--Premier Kazmer Hale--does it to flaunt his power in a world that is largely in darkness. I got some fun jokes in about it too, which always makes me happy.
Are we in "The Future"? Where is the threshold? This is a theme that I like to explore, so you'll see it pop up on this blog a lot.
Whenever we get there, I'll slide you one of my paperclips across the desk and giggle like a madman watching it go.
Are we there yet? Can we say we're in the sci-fi future?
Not until it's hovering. All of it. Even your pen and the trash can next to your desk.
Every day I read a new piece of tech news and am blown away by what is developing. The funny thing to me is that almost no one seems to notice, and it's hard to track everything even if you're fascinated by all the developments. At a glance it seems silly, that it's such a sci-fi staple. Some long-term brain damage inflicted by the Jetsons on a society at large. Really though it may be more significant.
If we have the power for everything to hover, then we probably have the power to get all the essentials done too. In a world where oil power and nuclear facilities are such points of strife, it's comforting to think of a future in which humanity has it all covered. The lights are all on even if nobody is home--and who cares. It's limitless!
It's something I played around with in my debut novel Terms of Service. In Neotopia, power is so plentiful that even the skyscrapers are floating. It's needless and overt, and the ruler of the city--Premier Kazmer Hale--does it to flaunt his power in a world that is largely in darkness. I got some fun jokes in about it too, which always makes me happy.
Are we in "The Future"? Where is the threshold? This is a theme that I like to explore, so you'll see it pop up on this blog a lot.
Whenever we get there, I'll slide you one of my paperclips across the desk and giggle like a madman watching it go.
