Friday, May 13, 2016

A Glimpse into the Future

2022  While driving down the highway your car alerts you, energy prices are at the day's likely low point, a combination of clear skies across the East Coast and a particularly windy system in the Dakotas in contributing to power prices less than 1/4th of what you would normally pay.  Since the family is on a road trip anyway you ask your car where it can stop with an attraction that will let the kids blow of some steam.  Your car adjusts course and guides you to a small diner off the highway.  By gauging your interests and the demands of other individuals on the available amusements in the area, there is almost no wait for food and the cute museum that you and your partner visit is just adorable.  The kids distract themselves on the playground nearby, where your nanny drone keeps an eye on the kid, alerting you to any potential risks to your child or if they try to wander away from the bound areas.

(I am going to need to get back to this nanny drone idea, I kind of like the premise (with some trepidation, I do loathe helicopter parents, but at the same time having a way to let kids be kids without you directly watching them is kind of nice))

1 comment:

  1. You forgot about getting pizza from uncle Enzo's delivered by a metaverse samurai deliverator... but other than that seems about right.

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