Foolish Weren't We
When we were youngwe'd fanticize about the future and what it would bring.We thought we'd be dressed in silver metal suits and have our own flying carsand we'd all be wearing small communication devices on our wrists!Maybe we'd have human colonies in space even one on mars! We hoped there'd be robots. Robots would do all the chores we hate - like hoovering and we'd harness the power of the sun to run it all.We did worry that every person might have a connected device in their pocket like some "big brother" devicewatching our every movetracking us where-ever we wentlimiting everything we bought and could do. We imagined our food would be ordered on this device - coming to us frozenand we'd be able to cook it in a machine at the push of a button!We thought that we'd do all our shopping on these devicesand everything would be either delivered to our houses ...or we'd pick it up from the local petrol station. Of course we thought we wouldn't need cash anymore and we'd never see our moneyit would just be paid into a central Artificial Intelligence or 'AI'and to buy something over £100 - I know!One hundred pounds!...we'd just have to confirm to an 'AI' that we weren't an 'AI' ourselves when another 'AI' asked us! We'd pay for small things by tapping a small...portable...device...onto a terminal... Foolish weren't we!