How Do
You Like That

'How Do You Like That' is the blog of longtime musician, bartender, open mic host, and general Treehouse guru Joe Peppercorn. Here we make an effort to get a glimpse into the madness of Joe's mind, so that we might further understand all of his wisdom... but dont look directly into the light! For that kind of madness could blind us all.

I've Seen The Future and it is Murder

Written by Joe Peppercorn | 25 January 2010

When I was a kid way back in the 80s (new Coke was worse than you've heard kids), there were two things which shaped my ideas of the future, one of which was a book I inherited from my dad's childhood book collection called "You Will Go To The Moon."

You Will Go to the Moon was written in 1959 and talks about how in the 2000s (they didn't have a name for it back then either), we will all live in biodomes on the moon and walk around in spaceman costumes, and eat in future cafeterias that serve the healthiest food to us so that we can all live to be 100 and enjoy our lives as earth expatriates. We would visit our folks in their retirement village on earth and then catch the last hyper ship to the moon where we would barely make it home in time to catch the new episode of a show that was probably not Jersey Shore. Swing and a miss. The other thing that influenced me, was seeing the movie Back to the Future II. HOLY SHIT, HOVER BOARDS MADE BY MATTEL IN THE FUTURE! VIDEO GAMES WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE YOUR HANDS! Of course, the video game part is getting to be true, but alas no hover boards. Anyway, disappointment LOLZ all around, cause this IS the future of the 80s, and it is not as cool as I thought it would be.

Then in the 90s, we had the advent of the information superhighway and we all envisioned a world where people would be accessing any Mozart piece they wanted at the touch of a button, reading the complete works of Shakespere with hyper hover text and working together to create the smartest earth in the world ever. Again, severe misfire. The internet is pretty awful, it mostly consists of people illegally downloading worse sounding versions of worse music than there was in the 90s (or some of the awfulest music of the 90s, yay Sublime is still rad!), pirating awful films like Transformers 2, and having pointles, often mean spirited, anonymous discussions about what is going to happen in the next season of LOST. Or it provides a forum for dudes who work at dive bars to post their non sequiturs in rambling incoherent coffee fueled hyper posts (this is like the hover board of blogs by the way). High fives!

However, every now and again, you find something where you're like, hey, this technology is rad, and thank god for the internetz, it saved my live! Although I would be severely disappointed by the no hover board and no cure for cancer thing, the 80s child version of myself would be delighted to find that the future would bring things like this, we never could have imagined this in the 80s!

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