Too many beers --> headache + realization

Hi,

The realization is this: the prognosticators in the 1920s and 1930s were correct in their predictions about the year 2000. Except that where they foresaw robot servants and hardware, what actually happened was the internet. The internet is our futuristic robot servant, only right now it's primitive like the first PC and you have to do a lot of work to make the lights blink on the Altair.

Am I making any sense?

The future of the internet is increased access and increased efficiency. But what it will help us do are the same things we did back when we all lived in the caves: enjoy each other's company, find food, eat, entertain ourselves, wash our clothes, play games, make art, make love, maintain and improve the cave, protect ourselves from the unknowns prowling outside the light of the fire.

We'll do the same things we did 5000 years ago, just with an undreamed-of efficiency.

An example: I run down to Home Depot whenever something around the house needs to be fixed. While there, I try to think what else I should get so as to avoid having to make another trip, if possible. Only I never think of everything I should get.

A better way: a client app that lives at my house, maybe his name is Hal, is aware from his network of sensors of the general health of the house. He also talks to me every day and during our conversations he asks if I know of anything that needs to be fixed. Every couple of weeks a package shows up at my door containing stuff I need to fix whatever's broken, and when I tell Hal it arrived, he prints me out hardcopy instructions on how to use the stuff I just got.

When it's time to grocery shop, I ask Hal for a shopping list, and he keeps a running inventory of the food in my pantry and prints out a menu and recipe instructions every day. The recipes are easy to make and let me eat a very healthy and deliciously varied diet.

Hal and I have known each other since day one, and Hal and Sal (my wife's app) know us so well that they designed the perfect house for our needs: no wasted, expensive square feet. We live where land is cheap, but lack for nothing. Contact and interaction with friends anywhere is easy to arrange.

The future is the past and vice-versa.

Best,

-Boyd