We are virtual warriors in the computer space age. Our CPUs tick coldly to the rhythm of our hearts, and gizmo's and gadgets whir with a deafening buzz that vibrates through our souls. The 1940s predicted flying cars, guns that shoot laser beams, and green alien women that seduce the male population. While I'm still anticipating the former, we are content with hybrid cars and digital information panels, nuclear weapons and guns that still shoot boring old bullets, and Alienware technology minus the exotic alien T&A.
According to the highly touted Demolition Man theory in 2032 high class dining will take place at Taco Bell restaurants (Grilled Stuffed Foie Gras); Schwarzenegger will have his own presidential library (How to unleash your inner Terminator = best seller ); and sex will become impersonal and take place in virtual environments (uBlow Mii technology?) Now these 1993 predictions hit the proverbial golf ball closest to the hole. Indeed, we are warriors chasing the ever expanding dream of a space age within a space age.
We shoot your polygonal platoon; you burn down our virtual village.
We phish your MySpace account; you spam all our email accounts.
We download your over hyped music; you whine because you are in it for the money.
We move from our MySpace to your Facebook; Your Facebook becomes our MySpace.
We are warriors culturally trading space-aged blows while waiting for our space age to happen.
Computers are the cornerstone of our lives. Without them our world would become dark, hard to navigate, and lonely. Our enemies know how to exploit this to their advantage. If I may paraphrase from one of my favorite recent movies, Body of Lies, our foes have realized that they are fighting people from the future, so if they act like they are from the past then we cannot see them. Technology has given us great steps forward but in doing so has made us lazy and vulnerable. Computers can train, steal, spy, connect, disconnect, entertain, and do everything we're too lazy to do, but they cannot feel emotion or love. However, just like computers, we are becoming systematic, programmed, and detached. Our lives revolve around repetition. We want our food fast like instant message and eat at the same places from state to state. We rarely investigate for ourselves and instead are infected with the twitter syndrome where we follow the already established names. We go out less, and instead find love through dating services that match us by our raw data. Humanity is quickly becoming computerized.
As the Google earth turns and our Bluray discs revert back to the title screen for all night repetition, we dream of a Jetsons-like space age of universal health care, peace, and affordable technological advances that further the human condition without the smugness side effect. We dream of a space age where fuel isn't a four letter word for death, where new weapon technology is scrapped in favor of new medical technology and still, we dream of green skinned alien women who will systematically procreate with us.
We are warriors in a still dreaming space age. Wake up.