Word: toothbrush
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...Maybe something simple like a toaster oven, or a really classy electric toothbrush, as long as it?s made in America by expensive union labor. The service sector is America?s future - maybe the place to put this is an extravagant dinner for two, or a cheap Yankees season-ticket package. Or maybe support financial services, manufacturing and tech all at once, and blow it all on 50 shares of Lucent. (At least I won?t have to worry about capital-gains taxes for a few years, if ever...
...wrestling your machine up the mountain and you're at 11,000 ft.--in a hallowed piece of Rocky Mountain forest where the air is light and the trees fragile. And it's all yours. The only hikers up here tend to be hardcore backpackers who cut off their toothbrush handles to lighten their loads. You're not even winded. Charlie Cox, a carpet-store owner from Glenwood Springs who heads the local snowmobilers' club, stares at a sheer red cliff glowing in the distance. "This is something we don't tell people in New York about," he says...
...Army guy who can't fish, can't bond with others, and lets an old lady with plastic teeth outsmart you in the Tribal Council (although technically, Maralyn voted for "Cal," so maybe that doesn't count), you're better off back at the base saluting toilets with a toothbrush...
...will, of course, need your toothbrush. And you will, of course, need your pajamas...
...this world, there may be no need for the physical augmentation of the human brain, as the most significant, and quite unthinkably powerful, augmentation will have taken place beyond geographic boundaries, via distributed processing. You won't need smart goo in your brain, because your fridge and your toothbrush will be very smart indeed, enormously smart, and they will be there for you, constantly and always...