Random Thoughts about the Future

Well with the end of first semester at Upenn, im left with loads of free time.. Time to rekindle my old way of spending time- To just think, create virtual things of my own, amuse myself with imagination and... this time thought I would pen down some of my thoughts.. I am realizing that my ridiculous exaggerated imaginations might someday be true. Here they are:

A future Scenario where today's food would be considered taboo just like alcohol and drugs are:

When i see all the delicious tempting food that i cannot stop eating, this thought sort of hit me.. Food when not taken in appropriate amounts leads to obesity just like alcohol when taken in excess. So in the future, all human beings will eat food pills and all tasty food items would be considered addictive and hence treated just as alcohol,drugs are . Cooking food be equivalent to Cooking meth . Death by obesity would be most common cause of death and French fries and the like would be blamed for this lack of control of humans on their sense. And to think,  the addicted junkie guy on the corner of a dunky street would be selling french fries :))

Devices of the Future

Smellograph:

Just like preserving visual objects through photos,  or sound through audio cds, Smellograph would be a device preserving smell.

Since I saw this in Futurama, I always thought it to be possible but in a different way. Why does the device have to have chemicals to get some sort of fumes to your nose. Rather why cant we just simulate the nerves causes the smell. With the way computational Neuroscience is making progress these days, finding the nerve simulations for any sense should be easily doable in the future. And im sure the future computers would be wearable devices on the head (might look cooler than helmet) , with glasses for monitor and some sort of gloves for keyboard and mouse. If that future were true, everything would be directly simulated to the brain. Now for the smellograph, all you gotta do is find those centres in the brain that cause the smell and just simulate them.

Thought Blocker:

These days, the most common problem everyone has is distractions. After sometime, concentration seems to ebb away, distractions tend to set in. In the olden days, people use to meditate without a thought for years together and they used to achieve what they set their mind to. I believe the meditation gives them the focus they need to be so goal oriented that they wont stop till they get what they want, without any distractions. As I see it, even today everything is possible if you keep working on it long enough without giving up. The problem is to not give up. You give up when you have distractions. So well, future device I would like is a thought blocker which blocks away all distractions. All painful memories, all temptations that might come on the way to ur goal. Just like you block a friend in facebook, you would get to block a thought to not cause u harm anymore.

DNA Destroyer:

Well, I cooked this up when we were in a bus to north india tour where I had nothing better to do than tell a future scenario about my diary(which im not getting into right now). Anywho.. identity of a person in the future would be through his dna, no more finger prints or iris recognition crap. It would be through your dna. What we worry now when we go outta the house, would be if we left oven on or if we forgot to lock the door. But in the future, you would be worrying about forgetting to dna-destroy your hair after you finish combing or to destroy your dead skin cells after shower.