{"id":240,"date":"2008-11-10T19:58:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-11-10T19:58:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:58:40","slug":"mini-post-living-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/mini-post-living-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-post: Living in the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually go on and on forever about whatever I&#8217;m talking about &#8211; but this week is going to be both busy and torturous (because on Friday, I leave for vacation so time will be passing way too quickly to get stuff done but way too slow for my liking, like this weird vortex of ironicalness).\u00a0 So, for the week, I&#8217;m going to pick a topic, and spout off on it just as long or as short as I like.\u00a0 Today, I&#8217;m going to marvel at all the gadgets, gizmos, and conveniences that are part of my daily life.<\/p>\n<p>I always ask where my hover car is, but it&#8217;s pretty amazing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/prius-hybrid\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Prius<\/a> I drive makes use of both gas and a battery to get it where it needs to go.\u00a0 The rear view mirror tints if the sun glares at it too hard.\u00a0 The camera in the back shows me if I&#8217;m about to run over the neighbor&#8217;s dog backing out of my driveway.\u00a0 Navi can show me directions anywhere I want to go, and where all the restaurants are in that area.\u00a0 It&#8217;s temperature controlled (as in, I set it to 78, and it tries to keep it at 78), and doesn&#8217;t have 2 settings of AC on (Siberia) and AC off (Death Valley) like my last car.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taverncrawlers.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/normal_IMG_1203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, when I park it in the garage, I enter my kitchen, which contains both a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roomba\" target=\"_blank\">robot to sweep<\/a> (Roomba) and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scooba\" target=\"_blank\">robot to mop<\/a> (Scooba).\u00a0 It does not get old that all we have to is make sure they&#8217;re charged (and the mopping solution is in Scooba), set them in the middle of a room, block off anywhere we don&#8217;t want them to go, and wait an hour and *poof*, clean room.\u00a0 We&#8217;re looking into adding the grass cutting robot to our little robot family someday as well.<\/p>\n<p>Want to get online?\u00a0 Well, your first instinct would probably be to head for my laptop sitting on the couch.\u00a0 If not, Zliten&#8217;s got one that&#8217;s sitting on the coffee table.\u00a0 If you venture into our office (read: pretty painted blue orange room that&#8217;s pretty much storage), there are two desktops as well (one isn&#8217;t hooked up, but could be up and running within 5 minutes).\u00a0 Then, we&#8217;ve got our phones that can also instant message and surf the web.\u00a0 Still need more connectivity?\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/ps3\/about\" target=\"_blank\">PS3<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/ps2\/about\" target=\"_blank\">PS2<\/a>, the 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/PSP\/About\" target=\"_blank\">PSPs<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wii\" target=\"_blank\">Wii<\/a> can also connect to the internet (though the PS2&#8217;s connectivity is very limited).\u00a0 I guess, technically, the two <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_video_recorder\" target=\"_blank\">DVR boxes<\/a> do as well.\u00a0 Pretty soon, I imagine, my fridge will be talking with my scale and locking down access to food until I hit the gym.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taverncrawlers.org\/gallery\/albums\/userpics\/normal_IMG_1244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really easy to just take for granted all the technology and conviences you find standard in your daily life.\u00a0 Just for a moment, revert back to your 5 year old self and think about what you had then (I know we didn&#8217;t even have cable TV, a microwave, a computer, or any sort of game system).\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure with a glimpse of their future, they&#8217;d have wide-eyed awe at our lives.<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/mini-post-living-in-the-future\/' data-title='Mini-post: Living in the Future' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' 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