Remember When Brains Cost 25 cents?

Was this the beginning of AI?
When you could buy brains for 25 cents, along with your donut and 7Up?

I go on Facebook once in a while, and there's always some boomer, my age, lamenting that the world was better when there were only three tv channels and you had to get off the couch to switch on great shows like Bonanza. And they didn't have a snow day unless there was at least a foot on the ground, and they walked to school--AND LEARNED TO WRITE IN CURSIVE! Some of the boys even peed their names in cursive in the snow. When boys were boys, Dammit!

(Note: I might have done that. Sometimes it helps to have a short name)

And if we got rid of cellphones, folks would talk to each other again.

I don't want to be mean, but I think some of these people bought the 25 cents brains, and haven't upgraded since.

I have managed to resist poking the bear and replying on Facebook to these people. I want to say: If that's so great, put down your remote, get off your butt and walk over to the tv and change the channel. You can find Bonanza somewhere.

And nobody's stopping you from tossing the cellphone. But then you couldn't post your photos on Facebook! Write notes to your friends in cursive. You can consider it a secret code, unbreakable by the new generation.

The point: Technology is changing the world, and the AI wave is coming. This is a big deal. Change or watch Bonanza. It's up to you.