Future Tech Gifts

How soon can we expect computers to mow the lawn.

'It was bound to happen - they're beginning to think like binary computers.'

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

'Mom, this is my new best friend -- I built him in computer class.'

"I learned how to shop online, mommy. If you see a series of tractor trailers arrive, it's just the rest of the stuff I ordered."

"'What I wanted to do, but could not, during my socially-distanced summer vacation this year'..."

'Here comes Mr. 'Smarter-then-you'.'

"The humans would have really enjoyed this."

'This is okay, but my ambition is to be an automatic teller.'

STRIP Hambone: The internet 'Where's it going?'

'I flunked English, but I got an A for blogging.'

"Get out of the way! The transport vehicle of the future is about to overtake you! Soon everyone will have one!"

"I need to take the batteries out of that one."

"This is it? No video?"

Existence 2.0

'And these are just some of the changes of the future that our chaps in R&D have come up with.'

"who knows, Perkins maybe one day in the far future we'll be bullying each other in addictive artificial environments..."

"I'm texting my compliments to the chef!"

'Teddy, someone from the Pentagon wants to talk to you about drones in Pakistan, whatever that means.'

'Uh-oh darling, I think we've really overslept.'

"So I take it that having your head cryogenically frozen accounts for the thirty-five year gap in employment?"

Santa Claus uses drones to deliver presents on Christmas.

Milkshake Shortage

'Miss Topple, I wish to be cloned. Make an appointment.'

Graduation day at drone school.

"Good! Intro to social media and app design are really fun! Binary code is a little hard though."

"Susanna Explaining Broadband to the Elders."

"When he thinks back about this years from now, he'll only remember the good probes."

'At last! A system with only 1 remote to deal with!'

'Wanna come out and play?'

"We're bored with the blocks, Ms. Johnson...when do we learn programming?"

"This model comes with tinted windows."

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

"Jenkins, did we get that new 3-D copier yet?"