Great to have grandparents around for Mather's first days. Writing as the eldest grandfather, I remember that when my grandfather was born, the USA was just 100 years old, the telephone brand new, automobiles and airplanes were just Jules Verne fantasy. When Mather is old enough to care, text messaging will be old hat, the internet will be choked with spam, San Francisco will be a de facto Chinese dependency, the Bush family will be forgotten like the Nixons or Kennedys, rap "music" will have an oddly quaint sound playable only on outmoded external (not implanted) MP3 players. She will have a skin flap for music or video chips which will stimulate the brain to recreate the desired entertainment. Math will be easy because there will also be learning chips implanted as desired. Travel to Las Vegas, on a magnetic tube train akin to a BART ride today, will give her all the sightseeing thrills she will need, as they will have recreated every possible scenic place on earth in stage-set and virtual reality. She won't worry about military service inasmuch as every US soldier will be recruited from the near and far abroad as a deal for citizenship after fighting for us to secure bananas or cocoa or lumber or whatever our feckless leaders of the time insist we must fight for. She will share housing with roommates who come home timed as she goes out; perhaps there will be rotating condos where you are signaled when one is open for use; $5,000,000 should provide for a starter time-share junior condo. If she wants to read a book printed in a traditional format, she may have to sign up in advance or wait in line to achieve an appointment to be summoned to a special chamber with stuffed chairs and period lamps for look at pages turned at a measured pace by a robotic arm. She won't bother with political thoughts or even personal opinions about others since all would be downloadable by a marketing/security firm. Her infirm grandparents will have visiting hours once a month at the mountaintop institution where they are kept so they won't take too much oxygen from the air, which would deprive the billions and billions of younger folk. Mather will still have Mozart to listen to, if she wishes.
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hey that's a first - a good picture of dad!
And don't forget to get a picture of her in the turkey pan--isn't that a Ransom family tradition for November babies? ;)
someone knows where that turkey roasting pan picture of grand auntie elsa is, and that someone owns a scanner...
Great to have grandparents around for Mather's first days. Writing as the eldest grandfather, I remember that when my grandfather was born, the USA was just 100 years old, the telephone brand new, automobiles and airplanes were just Jules Verne fantasy.
When Mather is old enough to care, text messaging will be old hat, the internet will be choked with spam, San Francisco will be a de facto Chinese dependency, the Bush family will be forgotten like the Nixons or Kennedys, rap "music" will have an oddly quaint sound playable only on outmoded external (not implanted) MP3 players. She will have a skin flap for music or video chips which will stimulate the brain to recreate the desired entertainment. Math will be easy because there will also be learning chips implanted as desired.
Travel to Las Vegas, on a magnetic tube train akin to a BART ride today, will give her all the sightseeing thrills she will need, as they will have recreated every possible scenic place on earth in stage-set and virtual reality.
She won't worry about military service inasmuch as every US soldier will be recruited from the near and far abroad as a deal for citizenship after fighting for us to secure bananas or cocoa or lumber or whatever our feckless leaders of the time insist we must fight for.
She will share housing with roommates who come home timed as she goes out; perhaps there will be rotating condos where you are signaled when one is open for use; $5,000,000 should provide for a starter time-share junior condo.
If she wants to read a book printed in a traditional format, she may have to sign up in advance or wait in line to achieve an appointment to be summoned to a special chamber with stuffed chairs and period lamps for look at pages turned at a measured pace by a robotic arm.
She won't bother with political thoughts or even personal opinions about others since all would be downloadable by a marketing/security firm.
Her infirm grandparents will have visiting hours once a month at the mountaintop institution where they are kept so they won't take too much oxygen from the air, which would deprive the billions and billions of younger folk.
Mather will still have Mozart to listen to, if she wishes.
could dad be envisoning this dystopian future because he's bitter about finally having a good photo taken?
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