Braindump, Nov. 17, 2010
This is a bit (fortunately just a bit) of what it’s like inside my brain on a typical day.
The Toyota Camry is, as I have noted before, a vehicle largely made by Americans in America from American parts and sold overwhelmingly to Americans, but it is still considered an “import” presumably because Toyota is a foreign-owned company. But Budweiser is now produced under the ownership of a foreign company, and last I checked it is still considered a “domestic” beer. Explain, please.
Occasionally someone will look at the calendar and say “it’s 2010, where is my flying car (or jetpack, or android sex-doll, or whatever)?” Alternately, one may look around and point to the internet, or the iPad, or photorealistic video games which one controls only with gestures, and say “the future is all around us and we don’t even notice.” I generally fall into the former camp, but driving home on the freeway on a rainy evening recently, out of the corner of my eye I glimpsed an electronic billboard, bright-as-day amidst the gray and murk, magically replace one advertisement with another while I watched. And, good or bad, right at that moment it really felt like I was suddenly living in the future. Or at any rate a movie-version thereof.
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