May 1, 2009

I saw an interesting episode of OPRAH when I was a child. My mom was watching it so I sat down with her to watch. This was sometime around 1995 or 1996 I'm estimating. There were all sorts of "experts" on the show talking about the technology we could look forward to in the new millenium. Fully automated smart houses were the big feature. You could say something to an omniscient computer in your house and your windows would be filled with some liquid or something to make them opaque. This way you wouldn't have to manually draw your shades at night. That was the only thing I remember. There was some other stuff that involved credit cards in your kitchen to buy fruit that would be teleported to you. I'm a little cloudy on that. I don't know. But they just kept saying that, by the year 2000, we would have all of these things. I want to see this episode of OPRAH. Are there DVD's of OPRAH? Why did I capitalize OPRAH every time I wrote it? I felt like it.

Basically what I'm saying is all we really have to show for it being 2009 is a bunch of people have iPhones.