Dear World,
You suck. Just sayin. I have been an
avid reader of science fiction, and have watched more movies in my
life time then I should have. I have climbed mountains, and traveled
all over the planet but I always give the red planet a second glance.
The one thing that the movies and books established was a progression
of discovery. Where are the flying cars? I want the Jetsons not
Bladerunner. The progression of what I would consider viable
technology has stagnated. The power of cell phones, computers, and
visual entertainment have taken leaps and bounds. Yet we are still
tied to the ground in a fossil fuel driven four wheeled fossil of its
own.
Medical advancement has seems to have
limited itself to traumatic resolutions, while cancer continues to
plague those I love. The common cold still runs amok in the still
gravity restricted play grounds that are not in anyway supporting the
genius development of our children. Sickness though takes a back seat
to obesity and self inflicted acts of vanity. Cybernetics have made a
few steps in the right direction, but are a long way from offering us
the ten million dollar man. Where are the clones? Why can I not
drink myself to levels of stupidity, just to replace my defunct liver
at the local Wal~mart?
What happened to our space program? Why
do we not have at least a concept of a warp drive? Why do we not have
some sort of baffling break through that offers us the chance to
follow the adventures of Quaid on as he tries to enjoy a total recall
of his real memory and not the non existent implanted yet cheaper
alternative to the real thing? Where are the solar sails that are
drifting our miners out to the resource rich asteroid belt where the
fleet is being built to carry our colonies off to these Goldilocks
planets that are just now being spotted, rather then decades ago?
I have seen the early formation of
power armor and biometric control weapon systems, but we are still a
far way away from Heinlein's vision in Starship Troopers, hell I
would be happy with the offerings of Hollywoods water down
craptastic B movie rendition. I have not seen a force field, and the
Predator like camouflage is still only a concept that is rarely
viewed on Youtube. How about those magnetic static attraction gloves
that allowed crazy Cruise to scale the worlds tallest building, even
if slightly faulty. A jet pack or two would be nice, even if it did
not have a tracking system that sent information to my heads up
display in my cybernetic upgraded eye.
While the Xbox kinect does offer a
hands on control free voice activated computer system we are are
still to far from a holodeck. Transporters are not even an option, or
alternative to the complete lack of flying cars. So I am guessing it
would be to much to ask for a voice activated house or seashells
meant to confuse the social throw back Demolition man. I want to get
dressed up and find my calm as I head off to Taco Bell singing my
favorite Oscar Mayer jingle.
While the medical tricorder is not far
away, I would still like to have the nanites coursing through my body
to help seal and repair the trauma of life. Hell the foamy paste that
was injected into the wounds of River Tam and her friends as the
headed into the black would be more then enough to satisfy my
curiosity. The evolution of the beta max to the blue ray would
impress our parents, or maybe our grand parents, but our need to go
to other places and dream of touching the stars seems to have slowed
to a crawl. It seems that Event Horizon is taking a back seat to
Idiocracy.
Regards,
A concerned geek that really is not
liking the consumer based apathy that dares us not to dream.
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