But here we are in 2007 and I got nothing! Nothing folks, no flying car, no space station school, not even any vacays to the Moon thus far. This is ridiculous. Then there was Zenon, you all recall her from the Disney channel. (check it out Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century circa 2001) Now her time frame was 2045-2056; there were two sequels, so there's still hope but I have only seen a few strides going towards that way, I mean check out her clothes for instance metallic, bubbled coats, bright colors...okay were 1 for 583,020 things the future has promised. This future everyone talks about is like an urban legend, it's like we have all heard about it but no one has ever truly seen it. Like Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or Tyra Banks without a lace front weave...just unbelievable. I mean i guess i cant expect too muchbecause even in the "future" George Jetson still used paper money.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Back to the Future...
So...remember when you were younger and everything on TV talked about the effervescent "future" like it was this huge, miraculous thing that was going to change the world. I think it is safe to say that we have set ourselves up for disappointment. As my classmates and I were sitting in another fun filled legal comm class at Howard University, one of my peers says, "Have you ever thought to yourself that were in the future?" And as she said that, I felt as if a light bulb went off in my head, clearly BLOG topic! As she reminded us of the movie Back to the Future:3 where the future is 2004...hmmm I think we can all agree when I say we have been FRIED! It's as if we have been the butt of some kind of joke, I mean clearly I remember sitting in front of the TV watching the Jetsons in their more than amazing, cleaned by a robot named Rosie, tech whore's heaven abode thinking to myself man I can't wait until 200-something it's going to be crazy. Because in my very own larger than life mind, I just that by the year 2001 my family would have a flying car and perhaps even a Rosie of our very own, except her name would clearly have to be Esmeralda because I'm from California and all the help is...well let's say from beyond the border. 
But here we are in 2007 and I got nothing! Nothing folks, no flying car, no space station school, not even any vacays to the Moon thus far. This is ridiculous. Then there was Zenon, you all recall her from the Disney channel. (check it out Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century circa 2001) Now her time frame was 2045-2056; there were two sequels, so there's still hope but I have only seen a few strides going towards that way, I mean check out her clothes for instance metallic, bubbled coats, bright colors...okay were 1 for 583,020 things the future has promised. This future everyone talks about is like an urban legend, it's like we have all heard about it but no one has ever truly seen it. Like Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or Tyra Banks without a lace front weave...just unbelievable. I mean i guess i cant expect too muchbecause even in the "future" George Jetson still used paper money.
But here we are in 2007 and I got nothing! Nothing folks, no flying car, no space station school, not even any vacays to the Moon thus far. This is ridiculous. Then there was Zenon, you all recall her from the Disney channel. (check it out Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century circa 2001) Now her time frame was 2045-2056; there were two sequels, so there's still hope but I have only seen a few strides going towards that way, I mean check out her clothes for instance metallic, bubbled coats, bright colors...okay were 1 for 583,020 things the future has promised. This future everyone talks about is like an urban legend, it's like we have all heard about it but no one has ever truly seen it. Like Bigfoot, Sasquatch, or Tyra Banks without a lace front weave...just unbelievable. I mean i guess i cant expect too muchbecause even in the "future" George Jetson still used paper money.
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LMAO! So true. I've been feeling gypped since 12:01 AM, January 1, 2000. And bump a spaceship, they still haven't fixed 20th century problems: racism, common cold, no-run pantyhose, fat-free fried chicken.....
Yeah, but we do have the internet, and mobile phones, and electric cars (almost) and gene-therapy.
The old neolithic problems like xenophobia and whatnot are hardwired. We either have to re-educate every generation or modify our brains to remove whatever it is that causes it...
... without screwing up the bits that stops us being eaten by tigers.
All I really want is a holographic projector like in star wars. Those things are cool.
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