I can hardly wait to be a remote controlled device
I can hardly wait to get the new “quantum dot digital tattoo” so I can be a device in the “Internet of Things.” No more wallets or cards. No passwords to remember. No keys to lose. The wireless connectivity will let you access anything you want with the wave of your hand. Won’t need TVs and computers or even your phone because you’ll just instantly download movies and games right into your brain or call someone just by thinking their name. Like Star Trek, only better.
We won’t need to go to boring, meaningless jobs every day because everything will be automated and the government will give us Universal Basic Income. Sounds like a dream come true, eh? Get paid to stay home and do nothing!
Won’t need to own your own car because driverless smart transit will take you wherever the government says you’re supposed to go. No rent or mortgage because you’ll be assigned a nice little apartment in a big “smart city” somewhere. No more banks, no more money, no more fiddling around with dirty pocket change, because that spreads disease. All your transactions will be transmitted and received through your digital tattoo from your account in “the cloud.”
That’ll put the robbers and bad guys out of business, so we won’t need cops, who are way too violent and racist anyway. They’ll be replaced by robot cops that will treat people much more humanely. But we won’t need too many of those because the quantum dot can even read your mind, so you’ll get “zapped” for just thinking about a crime.
Won’t need doctors either! The digital tattoo will constantly monitor your temperature and test for COVID-19. If you test positive, you’ll be transported to a quarantine camp so you won’t infect anybody else. But that’s only until they make a vaccine, which could take awhile because they have to make sure it’s safe. The new vaccines will actually “tweak” your DNA so that you’ll be immune to all the diseases! And, when it’s your turn to die your dot will start to glow red, just like that old movie, Brave New World.
We could sure use that digital dot right now in this scary pandemic, because it would help us to social distance. Did you know that with the Internet of Things you have to be six feet apart or the signals get mixed up on the 5G surveillance grid? I heard on the news that the pandemic might not go away for a long time. Sure, we flattened the curve, but Bill Gates says there will be a second wave and he should know because he predicted the first one. He’s not a doctor, but he’s the richest man in the world and I guess that’s why he is so smart.
Elon Musk is really smart too. I watch him on YouTube talking about artificial intelligence and how we will soon be able to upload our brains into robots and live forever. The way he talks like a robot, I wonder if he’s already done that? The future is so exciting! I can hardly wait to become a remote controlled device in the Internet of Things!
David Work
Lake Cowichan