Hasta la vista, bebe!

The commercial shows a man telling the viewers he’s looking for a car.  He speaks of an easy way to shop for one these days.  You guessed it – by internet.  He tells people to go to TrueCar.com.  He wants people to see how easy it is, so he takes a picture of the car he has found that he wants, uploads it to TrueCar.com.  The website IDs the car and gives the price he should pay for it.  “It’s that easy,” he says.  

The man didn’t type anything into any fields on the internet site.  He didn’t write an email of a car description.  He didn’t have to type a conversation with someone from online chat.  For sure, picture identification has been around for a few years already, but new applications like this one will begin popping up more and more.

If I start connecting dots, a picture begins to emerge.  Apps become available to make paying for everything and anything with your phone… money becomes unnecessary.  Online banking, direct deposit, bill pay… money becomes unnecessary.  Apps identify music and give artist, publisher, and name of tune without typing any words… typing (writing) becomes unnecessary.   Stories are told by film, thus film as literature will increasingly become the accepted mode as 3-D films increase in number and morph into holographic film when the time comes… reading becomes unnecessary…  Apps on phones, TVs, and even restaurant menus custom-design the world we want to create for ourselves.  Apps are picture-driven, even on menus for restaurants.  The last time I ordered at Chili’s, I ordered and paid from the table from an electronic tablet.  The server only brought the food… money and writing were unnecessary, including a signature.

Yes, yes, yes.  Apps are the new literacy.  Easily the world will go to coding to be able to move around in it using apps for daily routines.  Control the code, control the environment you want.  The landscape for 2017 has begun to take shape.  I love it, and it will greatly depend on the ability of the young people in the US to stay on the forefront of technology to take us into the coming environment.

Ask anyone what the environment was like in 1964.  Has it changed?  And that was a mere 50 years ago.  10-year-olds today will have a quite different world as well and it will happen before they turn 30.  50 is cut to 25 or 30, a half-life.  That's major change in one generation.

 

One theory of why the dinosaurs didn’t make it is because they developed in an environment that couldn’t support them if that environment changed even a little.  But, a meteorite hit and changed their world more than a little.  Drought happened worldwide, forest fires ran rampant across North America from the intense heat of the meteorite, darkness cloaked most of the Earth and destroyed plant life.  And, of course, the effects of the blast itself devastated about a fourth of the world in the arcs around the meteorite's diameter– destructive shock waves, tremendously forceful tsunamis, and intense heat in the immediate area.

 

I’m thinking that there are parallel conditions here for those who don’t see the emerging picture in just a few very short years and change.  My word of the day for them… Adios!