Does Harrison Ford dream of electric sheep?

Jenny, Jenny.... Who can I turn to?

I remember when I used to be able to memorize a phone number... Other then Jenny's 867-5309. I'd make a friend, they'd tell me their phone number and I'd call them a few days later... All from memory, when I was 12! Now that impresses me, because now when I meet someone I have to pull out my phone and send them a "test text" just to "remember" their number. And I use the word remember very liberally. 12 year old TJ laughs in the face of present TJ and his puny memory. Now, I have only myself to blame. Well, really I can blame 14 year old TJ... It's all his fault but that's besides the point. I want someone or something else to blame. 

Come with me if you want to live....

There's an ad out for a car that will parallel park itself. The soft and soothing voice on the commercial informed me that this would make my life a lot easier. Except my first thought was that this is the first step in machines becoming self aware and humanity being chased to the brink of extinction by really buff Austrian men! But I digress. Because of technology I get to be very lazy. I don't need to math because my phone maths for me. i dont nead too lern prooper grammer because my phone can also doo that for me. Thank godness! So once again, 12 year old TJ laughs at my foolishness; For becoming so dependent of technology. That smug little bastard.

We all live in a yellow Mazda...

I'm a lazy man by nature. I can admit that, and technology has afforded me the opportunity to be even lazier. I have a hard time remembering a phone number. Because I stopped trying to remember them, because I didn't need to anymore. Pretty soon my car will park itself... And then I won't need to do that either. Hell, some cars have cameras in the rear view mirror so that you don't actually have to look out your mirrors and windows at all. If I had one of those audio censor things  I could theoretically back into a parking spot with my eyes closed. I'd just have to stop when the little beeps got too close. I could operate my car with sonar like a submarine. As exited as I am for technology to develop, I fear for what skills I may lose. I also fear that Harrison Ford may have actually been an android in "Bladerunner" but we'll never know for certain. What I do know is that one day 40 year old TJ will be taunted by present TJ's beautiful parking skills. And he'll still blame it on technology.