Ten Things I learned about the Future…

at Wired’s NextFest, A funny, scathing take on Wired Magazine’s festival of tomorrow. (Which does, by the way, include a reference to flying cars. I keep being promised flying cars in the future. Dammit, I want my flying car now! Where’s my goddamn flying car?

My own favorite news from the year 2100:

The elderly Japanese people of the future will be so desperately lonely for companionship that they’ll purchase slightly creepy android replicas of the drug-addled but brilliant sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick. Why the Japanese, and why Phillip K. Dick? It’s a long story, and I’m not sure I fully understood it all when the android’s makers explained it to me. I think I probably read the wrong books growing up as a kid, or maybe I now watch the wrong TV shows.

Man, the next singularity can’t get here fast enough.

6 thoughts on “Ten Things I learned about the Future…

    • I think we’re going to see flying cars before we see teleportation, assuming teleportation is even within the realm of what is permitted by physical law.

  1. I think we’re going to see flying cars before we see teleportation, assuming teleportation is even within the realm of what is permitted by physical law.

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