Futurologist Mugs

'I'm looking for a short synopsis of the future in digital format.'

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

"There's a human being to see you, sir - shall I get rid of her?"

'Our parents were replaced by machines - We'll be replaced with new software.'

Procrastinator Foumdation: 'We're putting off the decision to fund you for at least another month...'

"Whoever made Keir Starmer did a sound professional job."

Artifishial Intelligence

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

'I bought him to retrieve my e-mails.'

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

"See? A huge surge in all the major crowdfunding sites right before the Big Bang!"

Desperate to escape 2017, a scientist built his own time machine.

AI Safety Officer

'I see you in five years from now, you're still coming to see me. Do you want me to book the appointments in advance?'

"When I grow up I hope to get into data storage."

Robot walking pet robot

"We do have faith but I'm afraid our policy is still not to accept Bitcoin."

Bot Art: After Mary Cassatt

"Something will fall down from the sky and it will be the end of the world - just because you didn't eat all of your carrion for lunch, my boy!"

The Problem with World Population Growth

'The next big thing is ultra nano.'

'Of course he didn't believe the stork story. Try telling him we made him with a 3D printer.'

"I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care."

ROBOT EMPLOYMENT AGENCY, 'We don't have much on hand right now --how'd you like to be a Pez dispenser?'

"No I wouldn't say you're ahead of your time. More like 'outside of it'."

"Hello ... Susan ... Joe ... Not ... Make ... It ... Me ... Joe's ... Robot ... Me ... Programmed ... Take ... You ... Dinner ..."

STRIP Hambone: Humanoid computers

"Ambitions . . . to replace mankind."

"What the hell happened to this town?"

Catastrophe Risk Insurance

"Space wants to kill you."

Another new, really cool-looking gadget in a desperate search for a problem to solve.

The Thinker

'The future of medicine' "It's genomics." "I'd say proteins." "Same as always: economics."

"How will you be paying? Crypto, Venmo, electronic fund transfer, credit card, check, cash, precious metals, brightly colored shells or livestock?"