WOW...JUST....wow..

Thanks Russ, for the flashback.
You will pay for this!!!
Jim Fucciolo, me and Russ Huebner
Graduation day 1986
York High School.
(Not pictured, my Duck shoes and the Duckster glasses.)

Party like it's Dec.21, 2012

Here's what scares me.

A few days ago I upgraded my beloved yet outdated flip phone to a brand new shiny hot mess of touch screen techno-coolness. Not only does this thing have built in GPS,Mp3,Video player, blue tooth and of all things...T.V. (complete with a retractable r2d2-esque antenna) But I'm told by a few people "in the know" that it makes...get this...PHONE CALLS!

All for about a hundred bucks, give or take a hundred bucks for chargers,carrying cases, blue-toothy ear thingies and plastic screen covers to protect the existing plastic screen cover.

Not bad...but what amazes me the most isn't what comes WITH the phone...but what comes seperatly. A memory chip, one quarter the size of a postage stamp and costing less than $15.00.

A memory chip that can hold 100 cd's worth of music, a few hundred pictures and even some video...give or take. No moving parts...no lights, batteries...nothing fancy...just a thin flake of plastic and magic that clicks into the side of the phone. And I bought the cheap one.
Whoah.

So what's next? More memory, cheaper.
Every year, roughly, the technology to store data doubles while the price decreases. If I'm blown away by this little chip, I won't be able to comprehend what we are in store for in ten years...that is...if we are still around at all.

Which brings me to the title of this little blurb...go ahead and google the date 12/21/2012. In short, the Aztec calander ends on that date...and so,ironically, does the I-Ching prophecy.
Perhaps by that date, the machines we create will have taken over, thanks to all that memory.
Or, maybe... they will just erase all the crap we have been downloading and replace every Megabit with Air Supply.
Either way...the world ends.