2041

     30 years from now, a typical day for a college student would be completely different than it is today, here's what I think it would be like. My alarm clock wakes me up at 8:00 AM. It won't stop buzzing until I actually walk over to it and place my thumb on the biometric scanner, that way it actually can sense that I'm up and ready to start the day. I go to the kitchen type my order into a microwave-looking device and within a matter of a few seconds, out comes my eggs and toast. I go into the bathroom to wash up and use some of Colgate's toothpaste that now contains an instant teeth whitener. With this, whitening strips have become a thing of the past! After getting washed up, I go back to my room to get dressed and get ready to leave. I go into my walk in closet and pick out my clothes on the touch screen. A robot picks them out from among the racks and brings them to me. The robot then proceeds to make my bed as I head out the door.
     I head outside and get inside my hovercar. Ever since their invention, they have made getting from point A to point B a lot quicker. From my house in Cape Coral, it's only a 5 minute commute. Nature no longer seems to exist, instead everything seems to have been replaced with a mechanical version of itself. For example, the trees now look like something from the movie Tron, with bright blue lights. I park my hovercar and proceed to class. No longer do students have to carry around heavy textbooks, now everything we need can be download and stored on a device that is similar to a Kindle. The teacher gives us the day's lesson in the form of a hologram from the comfort of their own home. No longer are they required to physically be there in person. Once the day's lesson is over, I hop back into my car and proceed home.

Netflix

     Technology, it's becoming a bigger part of our lives with every passing day, with devices constantly being upgraded and updated in an attempt to make them more efficient at what they do. Since I grew up in a generation that was for the most part predominately technologically oriented, it makes it hard to imagine what people did before the internet made information so easy to obtain. You mean people actually had to read books to get information before the internet? That's crazy! All joking aside, this advent of technology has made our lives easier and more enjoyable, with the internet helping to fuel many recreational activities, with one of my favorites being Netflix.

      Netflix is a company located in California that is essentially a long distance movie rental service. By paying a monthly fee through their website, you are able to have a set number of DVDs or Blu-ray discs shipped to your house. You are able to keep the movies as long as you want, but you cannot get another movie shipped to you until you send yours back. Members can also construct a list of videos, that way Netflix knows which movies to ship out to you and in what particular order. In the past it was also possible to buy used DVDs from Netflix, but they have since canceled that service.

     In addition to their Disc rental service, there is another service Netflix provides, which I have grown to love. That service is the ability to stream movies and TV shows to your computer and even to your Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 as well. Not only has it become a great time waster, but it has also allowed me to watch some television shows that I haven't seen since my childhood, such as: Hey Arnold, Invader Zim, Angry Beavers, along with many other shows. Its a great piece of technology that will let you watch whatever you want on the fly from the comfort of your own home. It's great to just skim through when your bored and looking for a movie to watch. Although some shows and movies aren't accessible through the live stream yet, the selection they do have so far is quite vast.