Future=Accepting the present

      "What does the future hold for us technologically? Will we be surfing the web in our sleep? Will computers grow to dominate us and use our precious bodies as batteries?" (Gay).

      Perhaps, perhaps we will become robots ourselves. People already have prosthetic limbs, metal spins, and surgically implanted boxes that inject chemicals to manipulate brain waves, and reduce pain. We use radiation to kill cancer, and X-rays to see bones.
 
      It is hard to predict the future of technology because it is constantly changing. I think that many of the technological advances that we can actually fathom have already been created. I think that  companies use psycho-economics to retail their products at very precise times in order to gain the greatest profits.

   It is strange to predict that "computers [might] grow to dominate us and use our precious bodies as batteries" because that is what manpower is. A man rowing a boat infuses his physical force (energy) on the boat to make it move through water. Although a battery has not been made, the transfer of energy from a human to an object is as old as dirt. The only difference between a man in a boat, and a battery is the containment of that transferred energy. As absurd as it might sound it would not surprise me if this has already been done. However, the demand for battery human has yet to exist. As technology continues to replace humans, for example cashiers in grocery stores, perhaps it will be in that moment, battery human becomes a necessity.

   I think a lot of technologies future has already been created, it is just a matter of time before it is released. When the Internet was first created, I am sure people were afraid of its capabilities and refused it as much as possible, but it gradually became another norm. In the same way as the internet once scared us, technology today has the same effect. We have phones, and computers that learn our interests, and make recommendations for us; we are skeptical, and slow to accept it.

 'Future' technology will not be marketed until we can accept the present, and become willing to pay.