I Left My Brain in San Francisco

I just realized something: My brain is quickly becoming compressed on a single microchip, and in the near future I will be able to rely entirely on this patented brain to solve most of my problems. The only thing I'll have to worry about is which type of TV Dinner I want tonight. And even that much is being worked on, I'm sure.

OK, maybe this is a tad dramatic, a little over the top, but never let it be said that I would let that stand in the way of a good article.

I think I've mentioned previously that our family recently purchased a nice notebook computer. This piece of modern machinery is capable of completing tasks in a heartbeat that would take a team of scientists years to figure out manually. Of course you have to bear in mind that it actually took teams of scientists years of work to figure out how to give the notebook this capability. That's my point, though. Human brainpower has been fit into a single computer program, which can now take on the menial tasks that would, in years past, have been relegated to the brightest minds in human kind. And it can do it in a mere fraction of the time it would have taken.

Magazines such as Popular Science, and various technology websites are full of news and rumors of upcoming technological advances. Many of these new advances are in an area known as "Information Technology". Examples of this would be the ensuing effort to tie our Televisions and computers together in a way that allows us view information on the Internet about a particular product in a commercial as it is show on TV, or to click on the suit an actor in a show is wearing to be taken to a site where you can buy that exact suit.

So what does this have to do with Entertainment? Not much, I just find watching all of this taking place very entertaining.

How many of you reading this article now could go a week or more without touching your computer? How many of you make your living using a computer in some shape or form? If you think about it long enough you realize just how much we rely on the information and capabilities of the technology that surrounds us. The Y2K scare drove that point home better than any I could make, and we're only becoming more reliant on our computers as time goes by.

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