I watched a group of people waddle up to a minivan today. The driver pressed one or more buttons on their key-remote. Not just to unlock it, but to open the doors for everyone. The doors on both sides slide open slowly. *wiriririr* The passengers were in arms reach of the doors. But they waited for them to open on their own power.
They sit down. The seat belts automatically close around their increasingly unnecessary body. For a second, the doors remain open and no one reaches to close them. Just then, a few seconds later, nothing is still happening. The doors are still open and untouched.
The back door begins to swing open. "Oops, thats not the button I wanted", they must have mumbled. Maybe they just thought to themselves "durrr, hurderhurdur".
Just a few seconds later and they have things sorted out. The back door reverses to close, and the side doors slide close. Throughout this adventure all passengers have the silliest vacant but impressed grins on their face, with the knowledge that they are living in...
THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
in their VAN-O-MAT with AUTO-ELECTRO-ASTROTECH DOOR-O-LATORS!
How many pointless things can we automate to make sure we never need to move or think again? The rise of the machines is at hand. They are turning us into goo-o-pods, and they are winning.
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