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Greeting from THE FUTURE!
Yes, it's me again, Newlin-bot 2012. You've probably seen this already, but I think going into the new year, it's good to think about just how amazing the inventions of the past few years really are, and what we have to look forward to becoming jaded about in the years to come.
Let's face it, there absolutely no way to get really excited about gadgets anymore because you just know that in a couple months, something even newer will come along that makes your gizmo look like a caveman club. I just had to replace my cel phone last month so I bought a new iPhone 4. Is it fancy and shiny and has a bored robot lady voice that answers every stupid question I have? Yes. Does it perform THE BASIC FUNCTIONALITY OF A PHONE and make calls any better than my old brick? No. Not a bit. It's just a shiny toy that makes beep boop bop noises and tempts me to forget to look around at the amazing world and people around me. I cannot deny that I already feel the inner nerd in me getting excited about the upcoming iPad 3, which apparently will be issued to newborns in well-to-do hospitals:
Sorry to break it to you, folks, but I don't think we're going to be getting our flying cars this year. But come on, would you really trust the neighbor kid to drive a flying car? I know I wouldn't even trust *me* to drive a flying car. However, I think it's encouraging that car manufacturers are making great advances in making our landbound automobiles safer and more efficient. Pretty much every carmaker has an electric or hybrid car in the works, and with any luck they will start bringing the prices down a bit so more people can afford them. I'm still not too impressed with how most of the new car designs look, but maybe I'm just still wishing that the future of transportation would look more like this:
I know, I know. Another year has come and gone, and, like me, you're getting old and feeble. Don't despair! Medical research is advancing leaps and bounds, and I'm hopeful that we're going to continue seeing breakthroughs in every field. On the flip side, I get a little worried about the growing number of infomercials for medications that are on tv lately. Do I need Lipitor or Xanazaburol? I have no idea, but I think my doctor is probably getting pretty tired of me asking all the time. I'm just looking forward to the day I'm assigned my sure-to-never-malfunction-and-destroy-humans robotic nurse. Seriously, these are being tested in Japan:
It's really exciting and scary to think about what the coming years will bring. I would be disappointed if we're just going to see an ever increasing glut of new phones, computers, and televisions, when clearly what we want are hoverboards, spaceships, giant robots, and world peace. As a new father, I think about all the amazing things that Baby Chupacabra will see in his lifetime, things I cannot even imagine. I only hope that the world will be a better place than it is now and that he'll have a chance to appreciate the wonder and beauty of it all. But just in case, we're getting in lots of razor edge boomerang training.
Until next time, enjoy the last year of civilization as we know it, according to the wacky Mayans!
Elvis Perkins, "Doomsday"
-Newlin
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Let's face it, there absolutely no way to get really excited about gadgets anymore because you just know that in a couple months, something even newer will come along that makes your gizmo look like a caveman club. I just had to replace my cel phone last month so I bought a new iPhone 4. Is it fancy and shiny and has a bored robot lady voice that answers every stupid question I have? Yes. Does it perform THE BASIC FUNCTIONALITY OF A PHONE and make calls any better than my old brick? No. Not a bit. It's just a shiny toy that makes beep boop bop noises and tempts me to forget to look around at the amazing world and people around me. I cannot deny that I already feel the inner nerd in me getting excited about the upcoming iPad 3, which apparently will be issued to newborns in well-to-do hospitals:
I know, I know. Another year has come and gone, and, like me, you're getting old and feeble. Don't despair! Medical research is advancing leaps and bounds, and I'm hopeful that we're going to continue seeing breakthroughs in every field. On the flip side, I get a little worried about the growing number of infomercials for medications that are on tv lately. Do I need Lipitor or Xanazaburol? I have no idea, but I think my doctor is probably getting pretty tired of me asking all the time. I'm just looking forward to the day I'm assigned my sure-to-never-malfunction-and-destroy-humans robotic nurse. Seriously, these are being tested in Japan:
It's really exciting and scary to think about what the coming years will bring. I would be disappointed if we're just going to see an ever increasing glut of new phones, computers, and televisions, when clearly what we want are hoverboards, spaceships, giant robots, and world peace. As a new father, I think about all the amazing things that Baby Chupacabra will see in his lifetime, things I cannot even imagine. I only hope that the world will be a better place than it is now and that he'll have a chance to appreciate the wonder and beauty of it all. But just in case, we're getting in lots of razor edge boomerang training.
Until next time, enjoy the last year of civilization as we know it, according to the wacky Mayans!
Elvis Perkins, "Doomsday"
-Newlin
