Joe was an average guy        

Walked into the bathroom of Restaurant.  The light went on automatically.  I went to relieve
myself and the display was showing an episode of South Park where many men had testicular
cancer and were bouncing down the street on their enlarged testicles.  After I was through, the
urinal flushed automatically.  I went to wash my hands, there was no faucet handle but the
faucet recognized the infrared from my hands and the water came on automatically.  The soap
dispenser also saw my infrared and dispensed soap automatically. The Paper towels
dispensed automatically as well.  I wondered what flying insect might be large enough to
trigger the soap dispenser and I thought of a bee.  Since I was in New York City, bees were
outlawed or at least it was illegal to own a bee hive.  They were wild animals, you know.

I mentioned the automated bathroom to the busboy and he said that if you take a sit down
session, the light will go off after awhile.  To get it to come back on, you have to whistle.  In this
modern world, one has to go to the gym to get any exercise. :-)

Joe wanted to document how robots were taking over the world from humans.  They were
doing it little by little so that at no point would humans decide to rebel.  He took pictures of the
bathroom so that he could post them on his web site.  He used a camera with an Eye-Fi card
that would automatically transmit his pictures to his computer using Wi-Fi.  

He said to himself, "if my wrist watch had a Wi-Fi acellerometer in it, it would know if I washed
my hands.  It would also be able to act like a pedometer.  Would it count how often and how
long I brushed my teeth as well?  Perhaps there would have to be a separate Wi-Fi device in
my electric toothbrush.  Would this simply be used to remind me how long to brush or would it
be a video game with a screen behind the semi-silvered mirror?"  His mind wandered as he
wondered if he would post his teeth brushing records on Facebook or MySpace.    

A traffic robot mailed Joe a traffic ticket.  They laid off 600 State Police in Illinois.  They will
hand out tickets on tollways by timing the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) iPass tags as
they go through the various toll stations.  When will these tags be placed on the license
plates?  Or will they merely recognize your license plate optically?  Perhaps it will have a bar
code added?

It is like living in a scene of 451 Farenheit where there are only a small percentage of citizens
that see what is going on and object to it.  Actually many more people object than who realize
what is going on.

Joe's wife had dishwater blond hair and brown eyes.  She didn't think that those colors went
together so she purchased blue contact lenses.  

The contact lenses gave Joe an idea.  He had a bridge in his mouth which held one tooth with
a metal contraption that was uncomfortable.  He went to his dentist to see if it could become an
implanted tooth instead.  The dentist sent him to an endodontist specialist who told Joe that he
would have to quit smoking.  Joe tried one of those artificial cigarettes which simply deliver
nicotine and decided that he could quit smoking without much trouble.  His artificial tooth was
implanted and looked very natural.



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