"The future..."

"...will soon be a thing of the past."

Moments ago I was watching a video on TED today where Robin Chase was talking about starting a wireless peer to peer infrastructure, er a "Mesh Network," using the existing car system in the US.

While the concepts were intriguing and all, and my mind was racing to imagine how this idea could be plausible in a Philippine setting, I immediately remembered one of Robin Williams' monologues in the movie Man of the Year. In it he said that networking, and the advance of technology is nice and all that, but what we should really be scared of, or watch out for, is the possibility that in the near future our fridge will be talking to our microwave.

Can you imagine your fridge telling your microwave to not cook that microwavable lasagna because the fridge's been tracking your calories for the day and it says you've gone way overboard?

Now take Robin Chase's model. Imagine when your cars start talking to each other? Spooky ain't it? We don't even have to go that far into the future to find worrisome scenarios if it gets implemented. Imagine getting spam in your car when you start it up in the morning on the way to work.

Sigh, when your inbox becomes your glove box...