The year 2000!

In the distant future, the Year 2000, When getting "poked" on Facebook has taken its place in the vernacualr among people of our generation as an empty, strange form of interaction that no one really understands. When blogging is a form of reaching out to people, interacting, healing in a virtual environment. When people go to public places like coffee shos to put headphones into their ears and stare into the eerie white glow of a laptop screen and send people messages or chat with people. Imagine a future where people go to public places and actually get angry when people bother them by talking to them face to face. When buying music in a store is a thing of the past and people of access to literally millions of songs that can be purchased, transferred to a portable music player that can be filled with thousands of songs and taken with them within minutes. When TV is almost obsolete given that people can stream their favorite songs on the internet for free and can be watched in public places, like coffee shops. When coffee shops are places people go to sit and get free WiFi. The Year 2000 is a scary, impersonal, time. When we no longer say "yes" instead we say "word." When people use the limitless technology of the internet and computers to escape into non-reality because actual reality is too boring, moves too slow or is too frightening to face because people are too insecure to go out in the world and actually be themselves.