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kajarainbow) wrote2007-12-24 10:46 am
kajarainbow) wrote2007-12-24 10:46 am
Hee. Robot garbage trucks.
So, I just arrived here at my parents' home. I asked about the new garbage can and got told the town made it mandatory so that the new robot garbage truck system can pick them up.
Yes, the town where I grew up now has robot garbage trucks. I'm still boggling just a little. One by one, all the scifi things are coming true. For some reason, this particular detail strikes me as hilarious. Robot garbage trucks. With robot arms that come out and pick out the can then dumps its contents inside.
Anyway, the garbage can came for free (i.e. with taxpayer money), and apparently it contains way more (3x) than my parents' old garbage cans so they have no problem with making do with only one now. But when it's full, it gets so heavy that pushing it is the only really good way to move it (guess that's why the robot arms for lifting them).
Also... on a related tangent, yay steadily more affordable solar power!
You know, it's funny. I've lived such a short time, and already I'm noticing a considerable amount of changes. It seemed like it didn't take long for wireless networks to become as common as they are (like I looked around and now nearly everyone are using them), and so on and so on. Just thinking about my grandparents, or my parents, and how much more've changed in their longer lives.
For some reason, Roombas still seem a little surreal to me. I wonder, how long before the future-home exhibits (with robots) in Disney World's Epcot that I remember begin to seem quaint because the very things they predicted have come true but in a different way than exactly predicted, things they predicted took longer than expected, and things happened that they never anticipated?
It's all very interesting, really. Seems like constant change is the norm of modern life, at least on the tech front. Oh! And they're beginning to do nano stuff and so on. A lot is happening. The science news I subscribe to are full of neat stuff.
I wonder how much cultural change I will notice, too. At what pace does that happen? I see slow signs of advancing acceptance of specific forms of weirdness (homosexuality and transgenderism) cropping up despite all the resistance to those. Stuff keeps happening. That is the world, and it's neat.
Yes, the town where I grew up now has robot garbage trucks. I'm still boggling just a little. One by one, all the scifi things are coming true. For some reason, this particular detail strikes me as hilarious. Robot garbage trucks. With robot arms that come out and pick out the can then dumps its contents inside.
Anyway, the garbage can came for free (i.e. with taxpayer money), and apparently it contains way more (3x) than my parents' old garbage cans so they have no problem with making do with only one now. But when it's full, it gets so heavy that pushing it is the only really good way to move it (guess that's why the robot arms for lifting them).
Also... on a related tangent, yay steadily more affordable solar power!
You know, it's funny. I've lived such a short time, and already I'm noticing a considerable amount of changes. It seemed like it didn't take long for wireless networks to become as common as they are (like I looked around and now nearly everyone are using them), and so on and so on. Just thinking about my grandparents, or my parents, and how much more've changed in their longer lives.
For some reason, Roombas still seem a little surreal to me. I wonder, how long before the future-home exhibits (with robots) in Disney World's Epcot that I remember begin to seem quaint because the very things they predicted have come true but in a different way than exactly predicted, things they predicted took longer than expected, and things happened that they never anticipated?
It's all very interesting, really. Seems like constant change is the norm of modern life, at least on the tech front. Oh! And they're beginning to do nano stuff and so on. A lot is happening. The science news I subscribe to are full of neat stuff.
I wonder how much cultural change I will notice, too. At what pace does that happen? I see slow signs of advancing acceptance of specific forms of weirdness (homosexuality and transgenderism) cropping up despite all the resistance to those. Stuff keeps happening. That is the world, and it's neat.