JUST KEEP CONSUMING

“Well, the web is good for some things—displaying documents, but native apps are just inherently better, necessary even, for some tasks!” That’s pig spit. The web was and still is the future, but the empire always strikes back. The Orthodoxies didn’t give up so easily, and neither did the Nativists.

Native apps just plug behavior that the web will absorb, eventually. Apple obstructing WebRTC is a tumor in the body of terrestrial software, but Apple will either implement or lose, eventually. The web always wins, in the end.

A few years ago things sure looked bleak for the United States. When what’s his face was invading Afghanistan and Mesopotamia. Fortunately, we were saved by a fossil fuel boom. It’s like how Exxon Mobile ended up actually saving the whales, when they developed synthetic oil in 1976, or something.

Extracurriculars are brain-bears, swiping hogmats of time for kids, sucking razors of relaxation. Don't waste your time with sports, clubs, signing parties, any of that jazzspad. Keep your knees away, just dig right into the depths of history: find out what happened, and you'll know brainal delight. Most kids get over-socialized, become turpid weiners, nothing but stiff mass market baseball caps. You just gotta chill out, and focus on doing something meaningful and loving.

Slapping balls in velcro suits and cuddling with other sweaty guys is just such a pesticide-pushing wet stocking—why not build the currencies, printers, tools, art, performers, music, or food of the future?

Why look back, sad bag, at that tattered gray 20th century photograph, of the murky face with the hangjaw and squeished nosehole?

Phone numbers are the "supreme currency of the age" — the actual means of communication amongst humans in the early 21st century. We have several very valuable auxiliary channels of engagement, that Face-Book, the slag of Tweeters, but you know your vulgar number will laterally supersede any contemporary flash in the pan social-network-name.

We overrate sight; obscuring reality, conquerings our understanding. It's counter intuitive that Earth goes around Sun. We still call it sunrise and sunset. Yet as the sun we see the sun dip below the present horizon, we must remember and believe truly that though unseen with our eyes, it also rises on another at the same time. For it to be day here, it's night there. But day is what our eyes see, and unless presented with overwhelming evidence, we hold our sight over all.

Bigots assign tags, and when they pattern match some bias their mind dynamically brands their hatered onto another. This was an important skill when modern humans appeared a million years ago: being able to remember poisons and threats. A million years ago, if you encountered a group of strangers, they very well would've turned violent, and that very well would've been a statistically significant estimate of that tribe, and one that if not made would've meant death. The friendly ones were killed by the fierce then, when numbers were low. Violence has been diminishing since then; civilization brings population bubbles, with peace and discontent-- for we were bred to be violent. It's more efficient to kill off the meek, benefits genetics.

We don't do what's in our genetic advantage as an individual or a species though. They're very leaky abstractions; there's no true individual or species, those are just the concepts we use to think about incredibly complex systems that our conscious mind barely understands. We do what's in the interest of the single Lifeform, the biome of Earth, of which we're merely a single cell in the 2 billion year old organism.

We're been getting more peaceful for thousands of years, after driving most of the other primates to extinction. Started with Neanderthals, who were stronger and smarter than us; and we only defeated with deceit. And today orangutans are right on their way to being the next ones to fall to us, the glorious naked bipedal rodents that've clawed our way to domination this pebble of the galaxy. As our threats have become eliminated, we've adapted accordingly. It's a slow process, from a human perspective, to transform from shriveling, anxious, sweaty and sparsely-haired ratmen into spacemice, spreading the seed of the Earth.

We've now seen most of what can be seen. Exposing ourselves to all major forms and classes of visual experience. We're filling in the gaps now, with cinema, quickly seeing all that can be seen. With the TV now spread out to all form factors and degree of dynamicity. With the internetwork of computers giving us interactive TV, and telephones gaining their own built in TV screen. (Imagine how a 1950s American would've pictured a phone, with a built in clock, TV, and camera...) Electric lights, blisteringly recent invention, started the era of constant electric visual stimulation. constant electric visual stimulation. In the snap of a century we've gone from rare to continuous exposure to electric light.

We're living in this unevenly dispersed future, building these applications which seem natural evolutions of a whole line of useful systems. Most of these lines, these software genealogies, will go extinct, and will be seen as obvious dead-ends in retrospect.

So now which is the tyrannosaurus rex, and which is the fuzzy little mammal? That's not quite the right abstraction—which are the aves, and which are the mammals? In terms of survivability, I don’t think most lines will go extinct per se, at least in the near term. They'll undergo massive habitat destruction, and perhaps even relative environmental pollution, but those that get far globally, from microorganisms to multinationals, tend to be those built to survive. IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple will very well have another century of existence.

But look at the bird numbers. Look at the bats. The bees. The marine creatures. Our brothers whom we call orangutans, being obliterated as I type this, as sun rises on Sumatra. While I drink a beer. Imagine the Nazis won: that was exactly what happened when our ancestors destroyed all the other humanoids ("monsters"), reducing our numbers to 10,000. The first pyrrhic victory. But we got rid of them, all of them, and we're still proceeding with our distant cousins that remain. Killing off the whole lot. Let us be the only rodent-sapiens.

Google is the only one that'll last, in the end, like us humans. They've invested across the board; past, present, and future. Internet tends to invert reality, and as such Google's destruction of the other corporations will be brilliant as the human destruction of the other animals is tragic.

Android is a brilliant joke to destroy Oracle. Drive to destroy Microsoft. CrOS to be the pinnacle of this new empire. And then, finally, we concern ourselves with things people in the past would've cared about.

Domination brings simplification. And Google will do that. They're not some software company; they're poised to take over transport, a logical extension. Why own a car when you can just call one up, it arrives in a few minutes, and takes you wherever you want to go, for basically free, supported by ads? A zeroth generation teleportation system.

Then finally we'll have something revolutionary. Everything since Colossus has been evolutionary. We've simply become more of a television culture—now we have interactive TV—and can talk with our loved ones and random strangers, on television. Television absorbed computers, and not the other way around, regardless of contemporary terminology.

We can now talk to our old classmates, read about any topic, view any (available) video... Television has conquered all. Not that it was the TV networks, though they're still hanging on, for this decade anyway. But new firms rose. To the point that we carry around televisions with us everywhere, televisions which track our every move. Our every thought, question, wish.

Google Cars will change all that. Right now, we're no longer trapped at our computers, but we're still trapped at our phones: at where we can go, in our means of living. Most aren't telecommuting software engineers (like me), and it's prohibitively expensive to relocate. Wasn't always the case, there's a reason many of our ancestors migrated... But it has been, throughout the Modern, post-war period.

Which will end, finally, with self-driving electric cars. It's a volatile combination: the upending of the fossil fuel dynasty, the ascension of information companies to transport, the New Migration of humanity. Don't get me wrong, this will be a new age. An age when the masses decide to spend their time driving around. If you’ve a place, airbnb it out. Otherwise, be a taskrabbit. A plethora of new services will sprout to cater to these sudden migrants. Google will buy AirBNB, and make it a complementary service of Google Cars: Google Stays. Take a car to some place to stay, for basically nothing, but get promotions on places to visit on the trip, buy stuff along the way, and cover costs all around while having a great non-digital experience.