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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
A LL-CARD TIME
Look, Ma! No Buttons!
Now, just when I have about become used to getting along very well in a "push-button" world the "Bose" boys bring out a fine new, home super audio system which features a total lack of buttons across the front. Not a button, lever, arm, toggle or touch area!
All such operating aids are to be found on a "remote control" said to be about the size of a credit card assuming, of course, that you can find it.
I realize this is "progress", but, as usual, I have some difficulty fitting into things progressive. It takes a while, before I become accustomed to such changes. I think a great may people feel the same way; not opposed to change but comfortable for a time when established rules and regulations are being modified or expelled. have to use it a while - unlearn those things I have acquired through past encounters with such unknowns.
The next important invention needed, I feel, is now a hand-held "finder" for misplaced controls containers - or cards. I assume we already have buzzer-type gizmos which can locate lost control bars under pillows, in upholstery, in the bathroom, bedroom or kitchen. Certainly our put-upon cell phones can ring out such items for us. What we really need now, is, however, one card which will change colors when told to do so. One card does all. It operates anything. Use it when colored green, for instance, and you have complete control of your TV; click it to become purple and you take over our computer or audio system or heating and air conditioning for you home. Gray to run the vacuum cleaner; whatever color you prefer to renew prescription medications and to decide what furniture needs to be sold this month in order to pay for them. Many of the mundane household jobs can be done with such a card of many colors and we are right on the edge of the roadway leading to automobiles which are coming to be more computers than cars In the near future, if the family SUV suffers from some malfunction, you can press the "All-Card" and restore any ailing software in your car's make-up.
Switch to pink and you become an expert barbecue chef; try brown an and, blues, shades of green and shocking tones of bright orange just to see what happens.
There will be need for just one such card. And, in keeping with the need to eliminate all buttons - the point at which we have currently arrived -
consider having the All-Cards card tattooed on your forearms, your lap or made available on your eyeglasses by means of a chip or two inside.
I wonder if I will ever be ready for that special time of super-attainment people call "tomorrow".
A.L.M. February 23, 2005 [c496wds]
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