Tech Underfoot

     Here's a freebie. Take it and run with it. Color changing carpet. Made with a blend of carpet fibers and fiber optics. Waterproof, connected with encased circuit traces underneath and run by a small processor yielding a wireless signal to the user remote. The user changes the carpet color as they feel it to be necessary depending upon changing furniture and wall colors and they will not have to replace the carpet.

     With a whole set of technology equipped appliances, furniture, carpets, etc. a person could change design and color at will eliminating long boring stretches of the same old same old. Changing colors and designs without having to but new furniture, carpet and appliances will save thousands. There might be some trouble with the sinks, showers and toilets.

     We might have to flush this one.

London Calling

     Ah, the telephone. A wonderful device created to save time in communicating with others while sitting on our asses. Until the mobile phone came along. Followed by the, only as smart as the person holding it, smart phone. And about the time the cell phone was popular I conjectured that someday we would have an implant behind our ear that we activate for calls. Which caused everyone that I told that it would happen someday to laugh. Then, we saw it in the movies.

     After that along came the idea that we might be able to jack in to our computers with a hard wire plug in to our heads. I had never mentioned that previously as I really was not up to the ridicule. The thing is, these ideas are not so far fetched. We have the ability to make these things a reality however, once again, our government is not ready for the public to have and use these on a continual basis yet. For what reason we know not, we are on a need to know regimen.

     We have the technology, but do we have the spare parts?

Mystical Movie Mantra

     In the old days actors put on a little makeup and then they acted and a movie was made. Then, they added some special effects, little, simple things to enhance the actors' as they acted. As the years went by special effects, makeup and computers brought a whole new world to the big screen. Now, some of the makeup that is being done is a true work of art and there is no doubt that special effects can really dazzle.

     Acting, or the art of acting, has been declining steadily as this technology gets better. The special effects and the makeup can, and from what I have seen lately does, make even some of the worst acting seem stellar. What happened to natural facial expressions, emotions and intensity.

Oh Rhett, whatever will we do?

It Wasn't Me

     So, some master robot guy in Japan made a life size look alike Android of himself. Which, I must say, is pretty impressive. It looks almost real. If this can be perfected it would open a new door giving rise to an unprecedented laziness the likes of which we have not seen.

     Yes, your Android could go to work, the store or anywhere for you. You probably would not want your Android porking your lover for you though, he or she might not want you back. Robbing banks could make a twisted mess of the justice system. Oh wait, it already is a twisted mess. Anyway, you get the idea. Another technology so we can do less, get fatter and create more legislation.

     I don't know what to do, I am beside myself.

Music Magic

     I miss my awesome blue Panasonic portable 8 Track player and my super yellow Sony Walkman cassette player. There were all kinds of colors and we took them to school and showed them off to our friends. And who can forget the endless hours we spent unraveling the tape and trying to ungarble it because we played it so much we wore it out.

     Now we have the iPod and mp3 players. There are a lot of different styles and colors but you can hardly see them or hold on to them. Once you master the computer-to-music player fiasco you are ready to go with countless hours of music. You cannot really share your music with your friends, in the old days the players had speakers, you can only withdraw in to your own world of music fantasy.

     Now with music players being so small, they can easily be swallowed by children and pets. This has resulted in an unprecedented rise in the need for qualified healthcare and veterinary professionals. Apply within.

SkyNet Hell, CarNet

     Cars. They tell where you are, park themselves and now pay for the parking all on their own. In the future, when they drive themselves, all of you (you know who you are) can sit your big asses in your cars and put on your makeup, eat your sausage biscuit and drink your high fat super lactose caramel machiatto, play with yourself, sext your lover and whatever else you do, without being a scaremare for the rest of us.

     Thieves can now steal your car and....park it for free, too. You'll be able to retrieve it by your GPS and, if you whistle loud enough, it will hear you and drive itself home. Imagine, you can sit at home, sit in your car and sit at your office desk, doing nothing, having it all done for you. (Wall-E?) Let's all get fat and lazy together. Gooooooooooooooooo Team!

    Do Not forget to set your House to call in sick for you Monday so you do not have to get up and do it yourself.

You Might Come Down With The Fatness

     The explosion of the tech world has created a way to access all types of documents through the web. So, now we use our computers, tablets and phones to read books and such. While this makes things easier for us it reduces social interaction and sends us further on our way to the lazy farm. Yes, I realize there are still public libraries but there has been a huge decrease in their usage since the advent of the internet.

     I remember when the Bookmobile came around once a week. It was really cool, it was a modified bus with a whole bunch of books. You check out what you want and keep it for a week until the Bookmobile came back. So, while we have become more efficient, we have created for ourselves a way to get things done with little or no effort.

     That is why so many people now have been stricken with 'The Fatness'.

"You're all going to die down here"

     I remember when I was a boy I would leave to go catch the school bus, no cell phones, tablets, iPods, etc, and not see or talk to my parents until I got home in the afternoon. I would interact socially, in person, with my friends during and after school. Now, we socialize from our computers and phones, we can have our food delivered and we can even work from home. In addition, the two most important things to the survival of the human race are the two most expensive things here in the U.S; healthcare and education.

     Add it all up and you have a recipe for disaster. Not to mention the fact that new laws are being created to govern the technology we have imposed upon ourselves. We are monitored by Big Brother whether you know it or want to believe it. The U.S. is slowly becoming the communist Russia of old.

     And, as technology gets more advanced, our houses will know when we leave, our cars already tell anyone where we are, the number of cameras in use will quadruple and we will continue to be arrested for thinking and saying the wrong thing. As our children and grandchildren grow up in  world where writing is becoming obsolete and their existence depends on tech gadgets, we can only hope for a worldwide blackout.