Like most Americans, you were awoken this morning by a radio alarm clock. You then took a few minutes of radio light therapy to keep fit and alert for the day before heading down to the breakfast table, where a tube connected to a commercial kitchen delivered your bacon and eggs. You were then read the day’s news by a loudspeaker or learned of the world’s goings-on via a television machine.
When it was time to go to work, you drove in your own automobile, which, upon reaching your office, was conveyed to your door by a car elevator. During lunch hour, you took a walk on a moving sidewalk while talking on a wireless telephone that never dials a wrong number. This weekend, you have plans to go to a movie theater that plays six films on the same screen simultaneously; you’ll slip a device onto your head that blocks out the five films you don’t want to see. When you get home, you’ll climb into a bed specially fitted out to make falling asleep automatic.
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