When the time is right......
You'll know.
It'll happen.
You'll go there.
Things will shift. Again.
I've been thinking a lot about the future, that is, TRYING to think about the future, and it has been very difficult. Things are moving fast these days and there are a lot of technologies in developmental stages that could trigger huge changes in everybody's day to day lives. Self driving cars, air taxis, drone delivery, robots, geez.....
Not only that, it looks unstoppable. There is a lot of money behind all this and a lot of money to be made, and whenever those forces merge, it's like the San Francisco gold rush all over again, only this time it's worldwide. The ordinary people that aren't in tech are going to be effected, you betcha.
Choice? Who said anything about choice? Did anybody have a choice when TV was invented? Or radio, calculators, fuel injection, microwaves, WiFi, cable TV, satellite radio, CD's, cell phones, etc. etc.? No, those things just happened, and seemingly overnight, so how is this different?
It's those damn robots, isn't it? And all this surveillance. Companies peering into our private lives, trying to figure us out, what makes individuals buy, what makes the masses buy. Social engineering with us as the subjects of unprecedented algorythmic study.
I just got up and peeked through the curtains. The world outside is still relatively quiet and peaceful. I am going to savor every moment of this that I can before taxis start flying low overhead and home delivery drone robots come rolling down my street towards somebody's house with takeout in the hold. I'm gonna drive my car before it drives me and turn on the lights in my house before Alexa flips the switch upon sensing my arrival. That sort of thing. Good old ordinary, stable, NOW reality- I've learned how to be comfortable with it but the world has me on a steep learning curve. This galloping horse called technology is gonna go where it's gonna go. I've been riding it all my life but now- whew!
Hold on!