Reality Check by Dave Whamond for August 24, 2024

Talk to the hand!

Our future Borg selves.

Best alternate lyrics to Ralph’s melody of choice, courtesy of Dr. Nick Riviera of Springfield General Hospital in The Simpsons. While performing surgery:

♫ The thigh bone’s ♪ connected to the ♫

♪ hip bone. ♪ The hip bone’s connected to the ♪

♫ red thing. ♫ The red thing’s connected to my ♪

♪ wristwatch. .. .. ♫ .. .. uh oh.

100 years? Probably more like 25.

Like the Eye Phone from Furturama?

They won’t be called phones anymore and they’ll likely be connected directly to the brain – or be part of the brain.

Don’t forget that mark on one’s forehead.

I wonder where the ringer’s gonna be located?

The human head will evolve into just a large bump from just walkin’ around bumpin’ into telephone poles and such.

Wait… will there still be telephone poles? Hmmm!

Palm? Soon they may gets installed inside hoomins brains itself.

It’ll just be a computer chip in our heads…

Hey, if that type of phone has a GPS, would that make it a Palm Pilot?

Not hand, brain

Makes the concept of a yearly upgrade about as fun as a trip to the dentist.

My old boss would have loved a cell phone implant. I would have slammed a car on it if he’d gotten one.

Not a good idea.

………or implanted into their skulls. Of course, that would take the joy out of watching the little dweebs crashing into stuff.

100 years from now we will all be under water.

I’m afraid of where you must plug the hand in to charge it.

It’s become his new lifeline.

“in the yeeear 2525…….”

is… is that you, Dave?… a hundred years from now?!?

As long as the middle fingers work, it’s all good …!

( but not for cartoon hands )

So will we have to get an entire new hand every two years?

Scientists tweaking with the phony DNA proteins.

Try and find the film The President’s Analyst. Note the year it was made and then watch!

This would put a whole new twist on self-gratification.

Jeez! They’ll be stuck on our frontal lobes. We probably won’t even have hands because you’ll be able to “mouse” with your ear muscles.

Not gonna happen. Screen’s too small. We already have the Apple watch with a small screen and which does allow you to talk on it, like Dick Tracy.

Just cause people make money off of something doesn’t make it important, in the case of your little electronic buddy, it’s mostly addiction ! ;-)