LIVING IN THE FUTURE (part 1)

so I’m in the middle of like three different chats on my laptop, when a friend of mine video calls me from japan where he is visiting. he tells me he’s gonna take me to the anime and manga capital of the world, and we’re walking down all these alleys lined with technology stores and its daytime there and almost 11 PM here.

I’m on wifi and he’s on 3G (but they have better bandwidth in japan) and the video quality isn’t the greatest but it is still an amazing feat, and I’m happy that a video call supporting version of skype just came out before the new year so in 2011 I can see my friends instantly on the other side of the planet while on the go - and awe and tremble with excitement at the possibilities inherent in:

• living
• in
• the
• future