Friday, April 22, 2011

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.

2 comments:

  1. Travis!
    Way to use your imagination. :) A biometric scanner would be pretty cool. It would definitely be useful since people keep getting repeatedly hacked on Facebook haha. The touch screen closet idea is nice and very realistic because some people already use that today, so it could be more widespread in the future. I like your Tron reference and your suggestion that textbooks would be phased out in the future sounds like it might just happen. Overall, you've written another great blog that was fun to read.
    -Tamara

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  2. Travis,

    This is a well written, and interesting blog. You had many interesting and thought provoking ideas in your blog. The idea with the robot that makes the bed is something that I would definitely enjoy, as well as the automatic breakfast. It is a sad but true fact about the plight of nature in the future, and it is good that you included it in your blog. Overall, this was a great and creative blog that I enjoyed reading.

    John

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