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Iâve tried to ignore it, but I canât anymore . . . Iâve been wearing a man purse!
I own a bag with a bunch of smiley faces on it and on the front of the bag it says SmileTrain. Inside the SmileTrain bag is my tablet, a pair of headphones, and maybe some DVDs from the library I checked out, but not much else, really.
Then I started using the bag as a purse.
Everybody knows the joke from the movie The Hangover with Zach Galifianakis.
Oh, Iâd say to myself. Did I just buy a chocolate bar I need to save for later?
And I would think how convenient it was to have my SmileTrainbag in that moment.
Then there was the time I spilled coffee on my T-shirt in public and went to the bathroom to take that shirt off and button up my button up . . . that was convenient too.
Tonight thereâs snow outside and I sit in this coffeehouse listening to renditions of the most popular Lorde song sung by two young bearded guys with glasses and winter caps, a duo called Stone Heart, with a thumpy drum, an electric guitar, and a microphone and of course my feet are wet because I didnât wear my galoshes and instead Iâm in my Walmart brand sneakers so I take my socks off and itâs in this moment I realize when I place my folded up elastic socks inside my SmileTrain bag . . . I wear a man purse!
Should I get rid of it?
Why on earth would I do that? My positivity coach gave it to me! Do you understand? My positivity coach gave me a bag which says SmileTrain on it!
But what I really want to know is are teenagers going to make fun of me when they see me walking down the street?
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These are the consequences I must face.
Have you ever asked a girl if she would carry something for you? Every male has done this to a woman because if it wasnât your girlfriend it was with your mother, grandmother, sister or aunt.
By no means is this blog post a guarantee of anything, but on a personal note I remember how there was a time back in 2001 or so when I walked into a stereo and electronics store and I saw Apple iPods being advertised.
I didnât think much of it, but I should've, because now the spot where that music and stereo store was... there is now a beer and alcohol store because they are out of business.
Things change and when they do they change fast!
Here are some thoughts about what might happen five years from now and the companies that might make those changes happen even quicker than you can say âdisruptive technology.â
Concerts in Video Games
Let's say you're playing Fortnite, by Epic Games, and you get a message from your gamer friend saying you need to head over to a secret location where your favorite DJ in the world is having a rave party! It could happen... wait a minute--it did happen!
Marshamello, a famous DJ/Producer, played to a crowd of avatars on Fortnite and blew them all away, literally, when his song about "flying" sent all the video game virtual people into the air to fly!
https://youtu.be/9s83_VxMC6I
Just think about what would you do with your joystick if this happened to your online character? There were many great fx at his show so if you want to see what it would be like to be in a virtual video game concert click the video above.
In the future will you be able to build your own virtual tropical island and invite people on your favorite video game platform to see you DJ virtually and live in colorful pixels? Sounds doable.
The changing paths of money
People will use crypto instead of Western Union type companies or banks because the fees will be less or non-existent in their cryptocurrency accounts. They will be able to send money across the world without penalty. It could happen that banks adopt the use of crypto currency as well to compete.
How we watch TV and movies
Companies like Netflix and Disney will rule the boob-toob and online streaming (Maybe they already do?). All the famous actors will be on these streaming channels and the movie going public experience will drastically change. Maybe even adopting virtual reality glasses will be a thing when you go to the movies, but people can already do this at home thanks to Facebook bringing Occulus to market, so maybe holograms and "immersive" experiences could be the norm in no time when it comes to this new movie experience.
Autonomous EVs driving the way forward
EVs, electronic vehicles, will be referred to as âtechnologyâ and not as a vehicle.
Amazon will get rid of cashiers by 2021 or at least I read a headline like that not too long ago at (see theverge.com article here).
It will mean getting rid of lots of jobs, but maybe this will get people used to the idea that autonomous cars will be a thing and you will charge your car instead of âfill âer upâ thanks to companies like Uber and Tesla.
Delivery is the new normal
Did you see the headline on YouTube talking about 400 restaurants closing in San Fran? Not to mention the result of covid-19 where it's been said 20% of the economy is bars and restaurants, which are closed or only have delivery available at the time of this writing, but ordering Mickey Dâs at home while playing video games on Twitch, owned by Amazon, and binge-ing TV shows while we âNetflix and chill" sounds okay to most people.
All and every food stuff and consumable will likely have delivery options from the likes of GrubHub, DoorDash and Uber Eats, but donât rule out those robots Dominoâs pizza has running around. Friendly machines wheeling by in crosswalks could be a thing.
Sports betting and marijuana will be legal
Will prostitution be next? Enough said on this.
007 like Security
Better look into securing your online accounts like youâre James Bond or somebody. If you live in New York, you may have heard âsee something, say somethingâ coming over the loud speaker in the subways. But hey, crime is down nowadays thanks to the video recorders on our iPhones and CCTV cameras, which will catch âem in the act, but that doesnât mean crime has ended for good. Internet crime has risen and might just rise more in the coming years. Instead of using just a password to log-in, 2-key, SMS and Google Authenticator for our smart phones could be the norm, but maybe it will just be a personal USB lock for your laptop, a mental wallet, face recognition and fingerprint USB password scanners for everything.
Finally, no more doorknobs.
Now, you can get everything you need in a short code to punch into your door. Maybe your doors will open the same way they do in Star Trek, but the day they made doorknobs make beeping noises is the day--Arrgh! Ever wonder how much it might cost if you get locked out of your code door versus calling a locksmith for an old fashioned key? No keys in cars either just punch those buttons or use that app on your phone to rev it up and start your engine!
What else?
Don't know. Iâm sure I left a lot of things out and it could be because those things have not been imagined... yet!
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I watched a video and I earned a little bit of Basic Attention Coin for my account. The videos told me about Brave, a web browser that makes it so there are no ads and it's also private so no one like a big corporation (like Google) or a government (like America, at least according to Edward Snowden) can spy on what you are consuming, buying or doing.
I thought this was "neat" to say the least so I downloaded it and started using it. It is said Brave adopts lots of things that the Chrome browser has and I was already using Chrome.
For performance I have only had one lag so far, which doesn't bother me much because I can go back and forth between Chrome and Brave (not like I would know how to fix a lag anyway!).
Brave is pretty cool. It reminds me of medieval times and shields and knights! It is a lion's head that also looks like the outline of a shield but probably it is just its red mane!
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