"What Goes Around Comes Around" is...i want to say blasting but since the volume on my touch is set to about 70%, i'll have to settle for playing into my ears. I'm walking through Parque Mexico on a brisk but sunny saturday in Mexico City. The stream of hip, sexy people, seems never-ending and i feel fucking cool. I feel fucking cool cause i'm mouthing half singing the words to Justin Timberlake's song, and images of the 1930's tinged music video dance in my head.
A girl is walking a small Chihuahua on a brisk but sunny saturday in Mexico City. The stream of hip, sexy people, goes mostly unnoticed by her. She watches a man in mid length black coat, wearing herimbone glasses, and mouthing the words to some song. She shares a giggle with her dog.
So there's the rub. I felt magnificently cool. surrounded in my own sound-tracked bubble but to everyone outside i'm just a silly man, mouthing the words to a song they can't hear.
I have a pile of dishes i don't want to wash. I might buy a car this year but the most futuristic thing about it is that its got good gas mileage and an audio input for my ipod. My next vacation will probably be to one of the coasts of the united states, and this winter has been unseasonably warm.
The future happens so gradually that even those things with the capacity to amaze (iphone, water purification straws, OLPC?) feel normal very quickly. Someone really needs to fast forward the tech development and really make us FEEL the 21st century.