Living in the future It’s weird the things that have and…
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013Living in the future
It’s weird the things that have and haven’t come true. And the way they have and haven’t come true.
I walked out of work one day a few years ago, and literally everyone in the Water Garden courtyard was staring at a handheld screen connected to a global computer network, exchanging data, voice, and video in real time with everyone else in the world. I didn’t even notice that happening. It just did, quietly, while my attention was elsewhere.
Or this rocket, which launched, flew around a bit, and landed vertically back on the launchpad. Ho hum. Just another day. I didn’t even know it happened until today, weeks later, when someone I know mentioned that he’s thinking of quitting work at Google for the one other company he’d consider working for, and I asked him what letter it started with, and he said, “It starts with an S and ends with an X.”
How did that happen? Why do I know so much about Miley Cyrus and so little about this?
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/59559703193.
