Bionic Man
I used to love that guy. I never watched the show that much cuz only the intro was interesting to me, with that "we can rebuild him, we have the technology" VO and the mechanical music. And the dolls (read: action figures) had that little telescope hole where you could look through his eye. Or was that the old biggie size GI Joes?
Anyway, this morning it occurred to me that I have been completely digitized now. I've been mis-writing all kinds of words today. Typing is no problem and somewhat faster, and definitely easier for others to read. If I am slowly losing the ability to write, what about future generations? Will they have some sort of virtual keyboard glove-y things that enables them to type while they gesture? Kind of like sign language that's WiFi'ed or Bluetooth'ed to the computers in their earrings or something. No one would even have to talk--we could IM each other to the devices in our ear canals and the voice synthesis chip could replay our actual voice without our mouths ever even having to open.
It sounds like some sort of Luddite anti-tech, "Oh no! virtual reality is ruining the real reality!" rant, but it's not.