An Indepth Look Into A Geek's Soul

I never thought that I would ever get to the point in my life where I thought, "Hey, I'm in the future."  Turns out that I managed to make it to that point, though.  I'm not sure when exactly it happened, but I know that it is indeed happening now.  What makes me so certain of this?  Robots.  They seem to be cropping up everywhere nowadays.  All kind of robots too.  Not just mindless drones, but some smart ones too.

I think I came to this realization the other day when I was at the local organic food shop.  I was waiting in line for Megan to buy her stuff when I happened to look over at the magazine rack.  There, on the cover or some magazine that I didn't care to remember, was there headline "ACLU Creates List of Robot Rights."  Yeah, that's right, robots now have rights at ACLU.  Think about that.  I couldn't bring myself to pick up the magazine to find out exactly what rights they were offered, but I silently wondered if they had more rights than gays did.  It wouldn't surprise me if they did.  Seems like something ACLU would do.

A few days before that, while watching some random show on Hulu, there was a commercial for Roomba.  They were using a tagline that went something like "you too could own a robot."  That is not it exactly, but the message was still something like that.  Basically what I got was that having a robot is common place, so why the hell don't you have one yet.  Really?  Robots are that common? 

These two things combined to make a picture of a cheap science fiction novel written in the 1960's that takes place in 2005, where everything is different.  People own robots, who just gained the right to vote, all while driving electric cards.  Alien contact happened in the late 90's and mankind is just now beginning to reap the rich technological rewards of their interaction with this new species.  Overall, it's rather pulpy and all together futuristic.  Still, all I can say, is that future is now.  Well, almost.  No aliens yet.

Peace Out.