Wednesday, May 07, 2008
The Future? You Don't Say...
Here's one of those cherishable predictions from the techno geeks of the way we'll all be living in the near future. Call me cynical, but on the face of it there seems to be a rather higher likelihood of pigs flying.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Yes, Surrey would have more than a cormorant problem if these caught on. On the other hand, they'd make perfect sense for those who need to make a fast getaway, such as shoplifters or burglars. Maybe Vespa might license the idea. And they'd make sense in sparsely populated countries, too. Australia comes to mind, where the nearest pub might be 150 miles away and overland travel is rendered problematic by giant crocodiles and the risks of seeing a duck on a golf course (a morbid fear common in Australia apparently, and which I suppose is called antidaeophobia).
ReplyDeleteAnd you thought traffic jams were bad....
ReplyDeleteRollocks to electric aeroplanes what we want is an electric, mows big lawns on one charge, self propelled, 22 inch wide cut, lawn mower, I'm losing my hearing after following Briggs and Stratton around the garden for many years.
ReplyDeleteLi- Ion for ever, that's wot I say.
Or, on the other hand, our paymasters could start to trust us to work from home. This would allow us harness some of the technology that already exists - the Internet - to benefit environment, our pockets and our dwindling allocation of free time.
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