I was thinking about all the ways the world has changed from when I was a kid -- electronic, medical, automotive -- as we were whizzing down the highway at 70+ miles an hour, perfectly smooth in the rain with no worry on the curves, while in the seat passenger seat Julie stuck her finger, collected a drop of blood and fed it to the cellphone-sized gizmo that not only reads her blood sugar but remembers all previous readings and displays them sorted by meal, time of day, phase of the moon and political preference.
And no one even blinks.
Posted by wallich at November 22, 2004 12:03 AM