We’ve put a robot the size of an SUV on the surface of Mars.
I know this, because I’ve been in communication with said
robot.
I subscribe to it, you see, and it sends me messages via a
computer the size of a planet that we built by combining every computer on
earth and allowing them to communicate with one another.
I access this planetary supercomputer via a phone that
itself has more computational power than the shuttle we used to travel to the
Moon nine years before my birth.
Oh, yes, and we travelled to the Moon. Nearly a decade
before my birth.
While we were walking on the Moon, Mars was the stuff of
stories, defined to us only by that which we imagined it might be. Now we have
a presence there, learning what it can that we might one day go there in person
and sending the information back to Earth, back to me, back to anyone
interested enough to pay attention.
We have a robot the size of an SUV on the fucking surface of
fucking Mars, and it is my friend on Twitter, and we made that happen. Humanity
did that. We reached up into the heavens and put that robot there and it shows
us what it sees and any and every one of us has the ability to watch it, it is
the future that we are living in and it is a glorious fucking future indeed.
But I digress…
You were saying something about how you think we as a
culture have gotten dumber due to our choices in popular media?
