When we were young
we'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 cars
and 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" device
watching our every move
tracking us where-ever we went
limiting everything we bought and could do.
We imagined our food would be ordered on this device - coming to us frozen
and 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 devices
and 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 money
it 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!
