8.5yr old me in 2010...

I'm drinking scotch and listening to Daniel Johnston. I should have got this out of my head before the scotch made it cloudy.

It's 2010. Wow. Ten years into the new millennium. I'm not impressed.
I wish I could go back to 1990 and have a little chat with the eight and a half year old me. I have a feeling it would end with both of us sobbing.

It's 2010 and we don't have the flying car. How does that happen? We're only now working on cars that run on electricity. Cars that go over 200mph are still uncommon. We've stopped using supersonic planes on a regular basis as well. We've canned the Condor do to fucking safety concerns.

It's 2010 and we've never made it to Mars. There's no aliens. We're still using the same shuttle design we had in the 80s(60s?). We've even shelved some shuttles again do to safety issues. Fuck safety. We can't make it further without taking some risks.

We're still in Iraq. Oh, we left for a bit, but it's so nice we decided to go back. Everyone goes for the waters.

Today's music is horrible, but I was listening to the Jets and MC Hammer in the 90s so I wouldn't know today's music sucks. Actually 8.5yr old me might like today's music. It almost seems to be aimed at the prepubescent.

TV is cleared now, but no holograms or 3D. VHS is dead. Video Discs became smaller and cheaper, but they're going away. Everything is moving towards streaming/digital.

We have the internet. What started out as an idea for knowledge and data sharing has become a mix of porn and socializing and pirates. I'm sure 8.5 me would be just as happy as 28.5 year old me with that.

In fact the internet is probably the only great invention we've had in the last 20 years. Everything else has become incrementally better. Or just prettier. The internet has been evolving. Streaming video. Internet gaming. iTunes. The Pirate Bay and torrents in general.

Blogging. Anyone can be heard.

And it's still a great portal for information. Recipes. Facts. Debunking. Temperature trends since they were recorded. It's all on the net. Rule 34.

Out of everything cool 28.5 year old me has, I think 8.5 year old me would agree with 28.5 year old me that the iPhone is the one that at least looks like it came from the future. No buttons, internet at your hands, games, music, movies. It's almost sad that that's the best we've got.