If any person
today turned back towards the past and tried to imagine then how things would
be in the time to come, it would result absolutely unbelievable. Hard to think
that there would not be flying cars and light sabers fuctioning as multipurpose
tin openers and other thousand stupidities. In a sense, one considers that
future isn’t a linear progression and that technology and invention have run
too much for some aspects and have just decelerated for others. People still
have sex by physical contact and most homes are unlocked through a
not-original-at-all key. We thought we have grasped future, but it was just the
weary present. The other guy was two steps before us.
The last craze
seems the whatsapp application. Almost everybody is hooked to that shit. More
than cocaine, I believe, although I don’t know if I’m also afraid of so dubious
an acknowledgement. Communication has transformed into a big stupid speaker
that let us contact distant people at the same time that deafens and silences
those closer to us. And maybe you would prefer to be there instead of here, but
I bet that if you stayed in the other location you would send interminable
whatsapps to the mates in this. Yeah, those you ignored a couple of lines
ago. In any case, “talking” through
written conversation demands new skills as important as having a driving
license or being able of operating a modern computer.
For immense and
neverending household chores, innovation never arrived. We still have to sweep
the floor, do the washing and the ironing and change the baby’s nappies. Some
things never change, even though you have enough money to buy a brand-new
vacuum cleaner robot. As for personal hygiene, nothing new under the sun. We
still get rid of dirt and smell through running water, and although wet wipes
and dry shampoo do wonders, H2O is still the king of cleanliness.
And in love?
Does technology selects for us in a more accurate way that that naive chubby
angel with the arrow rarely reaching the correct buttocks? I’m afraid not.
People choose as wrongly now as ever. Cupid’s post is safe and sound. Maybe he
shot all of us in relation to our whatsapp application.
