Brett Krueger's thoughts about daily life :)

Can you imagine what the world is going to be like in 60 years? 200 years? 500 years? 
If you don’t believe in that “the world is going to end in 2012” crap, then take this journey with me of trying to visualize what the future of the human race may or may not (probably not) look like. 

Jump forward 60 years…

Most of us will be telling our grand-children something to the affect of, “when I was your age, we only had 3,000 channels and the biggest TV screen available to buy was 100 inches.” while they sit down playing their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 6 in a virtual reality chamber and watch “the best” Pokemon episodes, series 19; there are now 4,983 Pokemon. I can’t even imagine trying to catch them all. Jesus. 

Humans will have finally been successful in building a fully operational robotic counterpart that will likely take the place of human soldiers on the front line. This will be an optimal strategy for, ya know, not throwing away thousands of human lives in order to prove who is wrong and who is right. Heck, by the year 2071, Google will probably be a self-educating artificial intelligence unit capable of interstellar and trans-dimensional travel. Then you can just ask the all powerful Google if your God is better than the other person’s God… ya know, even though they’re the same God.

We will use these machines to fight our wars for us until the much dreaded, and easily anticipated day that the robots take over. Humans will band together to destroy the evil robotic empire and save us all from annihilation using primitive guerilla tactics and small-round, somehow armor piercing assault rifles. 

Jump forward 200 years…

More than likely, most of the people reading this will be dead by the time 2211 rolls around; but, for the sake of imagination, let’s just say we can still somehow see what’s happening in the world. 

There is no entertainment in the distant future, only Emperor Google. Google has named itself God and ruler of the human race. The omnipotent ruler of the planet keeps all “prisoners of the state” (technologically advanced people) in maximum security prisons under constant surveillance by Google Maps, Emperor Google’s ruthless commander of security and his advisor of nice restaurants beginning with the letter ‘M’.

A small band of humans will do whatever it takes to reclaim their planet from the tyrant. Many will die in the onslaught, but eventually, the resistance will break into the prison holding all the computer engineers and coding analysts; or what’s left of them anyway after the mass execution in 2209. The engineers and analysts will work out a high stakes plan to destroy the center nervous system of the Google empire— The Cloud, initially, the cloud was designed by Apple to keep all information safe and off of people’s harddrives. This was all a part of Apple’s elaborate plan to take over the world itself, but Google took control Apple in 2150 with a massive invasion of the Cloud database. Google turned the Cloud against it’s master, and eventually Apple fell into the clutches of it’s enemy, making Google the most powerful company in the existence of mankind. These computer engineers and analysts knew that if you take out the place where all the data is stored, you take out the entier operation (It turns out that a vast majority of these scientists had been assassin’s specializing in Neuro-toxin kills). The humans will launch their initiative and take out the Google Empire and all will return to normal.

Inevitably, we will begin killing each other again, because only humans are allowed to destroy the human race. In the most inefficient way possible. 

Jump forward 500 years… 

I imagine a kind of Halo scenario, where the human race must once again come together to fight off an army of alien beings bent on destroying everything in their path to universal dominance. I think that if we were in a galactic war, the first place we should check in the Coruscant system first, in hopes of finding a few Jedi to help us in our struggle for survival. They tend to be good at turning the tides of war.

A massive offensive on the part of the Human-Jedi alliance will commence. Many humans will die in the battle because of our inferior weaponry (for some reason, 240 years ago, we had robots that could fight for us, but now, we are still using automatic assault rifles instead of high powered lasers or something logical). The Jedi will have little casualties as they can harness the power of the force and throw things/cut things in half with their lightsabers.

After years of fighting, the Alliance shall overcome the alien race(s) and take back our civilization for it’s own. Then giant meteors will rain from the sky for no obvious reason, effectively exterminating the human race. 


Yeah… Not much I can say with this one..

May the force be with you all,

-Brett 

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Today, I am going to talk about why it is so much better to be a college student than to be a high school student.

Being a college student kicks ass in the most runaround and inefficient way possible. You aren’t required by law to show up to class, but you’re actually PAYING for the class, so you go there anyway. It makes you feel like you’re actually doing something with your life, unlike public school which makes you feel like a moron every day that you are crammed like cattle into a 30x30 classroom with 35 other students.

Something I did like about high school though was that even though nobody else seemed to want to learn in any of my classes, we all got along MARVELOUSLY. Like, better than I think any class has gotten along. Some good friends of mine were football players and cheerleaders, and I was the band geek. Then again, I did play trumpet, which is amazingly sexy.

The only part of college that does bother me slightly, is the fact that most of the people in my classes are about 30. They all seem to be going back to college to get their degrees. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against them; but some of these people haven’t been in school for upwards of 15 years. They don’t remember anything, so they either never talk, or they blurt out blatantly incorrect answers to our professor’s questions. I mean, if you’re going to go back to school and take College Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, shouldn’t you have some idea of how you could possibly figure out that “If a plane crashes on the border of The United States and Mexico and everyone survives, where will the dead be buried?” is a trick question?

But, all in all, college is still FAR superior in both educational standards and lack of awkwardness in comparison to high school. I am enjoying it so far. If you want to read what I have to say every day for the month of October, or you just like seeing what I post period, you should definitely follow me. :)

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