Futurologist Pillows

'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...'

Artifishial Intelligence

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

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

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'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

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

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

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."

The Problem with World Population Growth

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 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."

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

"Ambitions . . . to replace mankind."

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

"What the hell happened to this town?"

STRIP Hambone: Humanoid computers

Catastrophe Risk Insurance

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?"

Old MacDonald had a data farm. AI AI O.

"This one's really scary. It's about what's happening to my 401k."