I’m thinking about what kind of world it will be when human interaction becomes nearly extinct in exchange for the more mechanical, technological way of doing things. I can totally see George Orwell’s prophecies of 1984 coming to pass (I’m not even touching eschatology, that’s a given). New world order? No doubt. But I take it all in stride. I’m thinking about college history professors and how they live to find these really old documents, handwritten diaries of famous or not-so-famous people. They read them to find out about their times, their ancient lifestyles. I wonder what the historians will dig up in 200 years about us? Will it as easy as popping in a thumb drive, rescuing a zip-disk, or rebuilding a “dinosaur” touch screen phone as the new microfiche machine? Or will they be able to scan the foreheads of our descendants to retrieve their earliest memories? You laugh, but is this not less far fetched than it was 20 years ago? The science fiction reality show is here: and guess what? We’re it. Question is, whose watching?
