Monthly Archive for January, 2007

I wake up to a song playing off a plastic disc that holds over an hour of music in near original quality that costs about .5 cents. I put some breakfast in the microwave and it goes from frozen to fully cooked in about 3 minutes. While I am eating my ham and cheese english muffin I check my email on my laptop computer with 2 2ghz processors in it and 10 times more ram that my first computer had hard drive space. Time to go for a run, grab my iPod Nano that that has a better screen, more ram, more flash, and a faster processor than my first computer 14 years ago.

I also grab my watch who tracks my position, running speed, pace, distance, and calories burned by signals it receives from space.

I brush by teeth using an ultrasonic toothbrush, shower, and it’s time for work. I hop into my car which at the touch of a button turns from a hard top coupe to a convertible, has a 300hp engine and put on one of over 100 radio stations beamed to my car from space. It’s kinda warm outside so I blast my air conditioning.

I get a call on my cellphone which gets push email, and can surf the internet at around 120kbps anywhere in town. I need to run somewhere before work to pick up some documents. I hit a button and a color touch screen pops out of my dashboard and a map shows my current position. Put in the address and my car tells me turn by turn in a soothing voice exactly how to get to my destination.

I get a phone call from my parents. They are in Africa and are calling me from a phone that fits in their hand and places phone calls directly though satellites in space. We chit chat a bit and they remind me that they will be travelling halfway around the world in two days and the trip will take them about 12 hours.

I have lunch at Subway where my sandwich is completely toasted in 30 seconds.

It’s time to go home, I decided to play music on my iPod. I have 4,500 songs available to me on demand on something that I can hold in the palm of my hand.

I arrive home and park my car. The gate automatically opens as I approach by electronically reading a tag in my car and closes after I enter. I take an elevator 9 stories up to my apartment in a 23 story build and look out onto the horizon including an 72 story building.

Time to watch TV. I think I’ll watch a HD movie that is available on demand any time of day on my cable box. After that I’ll watch one of the 30 or so TV programs that are stored on my cable box hard drive.

What should I have for dinner? I think I’ll have some bagel bites. I can just pop them into my speedcook oven that cooks the perfectly using microwaves, light, and a convection oven in just a few minutes with no pre-heating. Just pop them in and select bagel bites from the microwave menu system.

Bedtime, I hop into bed and start a movie to watch while I fall asleep that is playing of a inexpensive plastic disc that fits in my hand.