Sunday, October 01, 2006

Remember When?

October 1, 2006. Another Beautiful day in Paradise. Remember when humans were the smartest race on earth? Well I sure do. Now humans are being replaced by the more efficient and cheap race called robots. Robots make almost everything you use during the day. They made the alarm clock that woke you up, the microwave oven that warmed up your waffles in, the car you drove to school in, the mechanical pencil you wrote that essay in, the heat lamp that kept your burger warm, the football you used in gym, the ipod you listened to all day, the computer you're using right now, the list goes on almost forever. They can mow your lawn, vacuum the rugs and mop the wood and tiles, climb walls to scan for weak points in buildings, fly at speeds of up to Mach 6, map out the earth, take a picture of you without you ever knowing it, trace your exact location and send a human to hunt you down. Soon they'll cut out the middleman and just find you themselves. The worst part is, humans are doing it. We built them. They say that by 2105 humans will not be needed for anything but upholding the balance of the food chain. And scientists are working on that one too. Now you may not believe me, but my dad's an engineer and he reads Popular Science, and they eat this crap up. Every month he tells me about some new robot. One month he told me about this game, the ESP Game. It's fun and I enjoy playing it. Then my dad tells me that it is used to help robots think more like humans. Unfortunately, I was already hooked. And to prove robots are getting smarter than us, go draw a house. This accurately told me my personality. Granted there are millions of those things out there, this one is the most advanced. Not that I'm worried about a Terminator scenario in the future. Although scientists say that someday it will be possible for any random Joe to have force powers. And that some college kids have made a car only one molecule big. Have a nice day.