2041: My Life

Thirty years from now, in the year 2041, life will be incredibly different than it is now. As a freshman in college, I will wake up in the morning to a projected image on my wall, with accompanying music to my favorite band at this time. I will go to my closet and pick out my outfit, hanging it in a glass tall cylinder, where it will be steamed and cleaned for use. I will then go the bathroom and stand in the shower while I am cleaned. Yes, you heard me correctly, I am cleaned. I imagine a futuristic shower in which there are moving jets everywhere that omit tear-free soap, and clean you without any need to use physical exertion. After drying off and throwing my laundry in the automatic sorting washing machine, I get dressed and grab my Gridbase (Modern day iPhone of sorts). This phone not only acts as a computer with a virtual keyboard, it also has subwoofers that allow real bass when playing music. It also houses all of my textbooks and school notes which eliminate the need for a book bag. I head out the door and lock it with a thumb-recognizing pad before entering the Moscalator and typing in the building my first class is in. As I am zipped away, surrounded by snot nosed freshman on a tour of the college, i put in my wireless headphones and allow my thoughts to drift away to Jimmy Hendrix until it begins blasting in my ears. I arrive in the English building moments later, and emerge in to the all white building, listening to my footsteps echo amongst the vaulted ceilings. As I arrive to class, I put my thumb against the pad and hear the click as the door is unlocked. I sit down on one of the many leather couches arranged around the room, and await my professor’s arrival. When she walks in, apologizing for her lateness, she types in a code on the keypad by her desk and a huge projected image of Freud is plastered on the wall. The next hour passes by rather quickly considering I never removed by earphones, and I head to iSovi to grab a bite to eat. I walk in and place my thumb against the pad for payment, and go up to the computer to enter in my order. After finding a comfortable booth, I enter my order number into the keypad on the wall, and suddenly the wall opens slightly and my food emerges. After eating in less than 15 minutes, I go back to my dorm via Moscalator and listen to my textbook through my headphones to study for my next class. As the day comes to a close, I set my alarm for a sunflower along with Baby by Justina Beibett, and go to sleep, of course hooked up to my dreamrecorder to watch the next day. Life is good.

Blog 5 Technology Debate

When the iPhone first emerged, I was not really a big fan of it. I saw how obsessed people around me were becoming with it, to points of no return money wise, and it did not seem healthy to have such a craze surrounding a piece of metal. While I was intrigued by it, I never allowed myself to even try it out so as to not join the mania. I stuck to my Blackberry and became one of the well known “iPhone haters”, becoming vocal about my distaste for the iPhone, without really having any real reason, except for pure jealousy of course (But at this point in time I was still not willing to admit this).



It wasn’t until two of my best friends replaced their Blackberries with iPhones that I started to realize how much I had secretly wanted one. They would download the most interesting apps and the fast internet made it possible to look up anything we wanted, no matter where we were, and view it exactly as it would be on the computer. I was hooked. I began to research just how much money an iPhone would cost me, and my heart broke when I saw the steep numbers.  I was now forced to remain in the iPhone haters club a bit longer than I wanted.

When I finally had saved enough money to purchase the iPhone, I barged from the mailroom where I had just received a check in the mail, and quickly begged my best friend to take me to the store. Of course the first store did not have them in stock, but we were finally able to locate somewhere that did. As I purchased the phone I had my moment of doubt just because of just how much money I was spending, but as soon as I turned it on all doubt faded away. This phone was simply incredible! It literally offered me just about every technology I use, but compacted in to one small device. It really was the best decision I had ever made in regards to a large purchase. I use my phone every day, and get every cent of use out of it, and I can’t say the same of the vast majority of other technological resources I own.  While I will admit it takes over a lot of people’s attention, they are simply getting the most out of a product they are investing a lot of money in. What is the point of putting so much money in to something, if at the end of the month you feel as if you didn’t make the most of it?