1988 Predictions of What 2013 Would Be like Are Scarily Accurate
• Share   • Read Later           if you replace the idea of
"robot dogs" with things like the xbox, they were dead on. 
what good would a robot dog be? the things we enjoy about pets
are the things that make them living creatures. to have a robot
chase a ball would get old fast, etc. on the other hand, change
out the automaton "robot" functions for "information" ... and 
what do you have? you have the xbox, playstation, desktop
computer, whatever. digitization has taken many of the places of
things like pets and "people to talk to" etc much farther than
just "being able to talk in real time to one another".   maybe
not making your dinner but a far cry from medieval europe as to
what choices you have at  9 pm tonight. :)   This is old news, I
saw the same thing several months ago...   The future is based
on the nature of discovery,which leads to technology, all while
factoring the effect of diminishing returns.  The first great
discovery was