B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 13, 2021

Is it a hashtag or a tic tac toe game set up?

We have hit rock bottom, not peaked.

And the sun sets….great metaphor.

Maybe I’m too old, but I thought it was the pound key?

Hashtag Nimrod.

That’s sharp. When did someone pound that number out? They see that they didn’t sign their drawing

The writing is on the wall, fer sure.

Indeed, the thought that this could be true is frightening.

We have piqued.

I thought it was tic tac toe? I’m so old.

hip deep in entropy

Hashtag this! Stupid

Number or pound sign to me as in we are # 1.

Today we live in the woke, social media world of the insane! #Hashtag restore American sanity and stability.

Haven’t peaked until the invention of religion followed by politics.

It has always been the number sign to me.

and the downhill slope is steep, rocky and fast…..

For the high class, it’s an octothorpe.

Maybe the antelope is uttering a grawlix?

Wrongo! You’re actually on the way back down!

This is a good time to run a thought past my brain trust here in GC. Yesterday my son and I were talking about the present and future, and how in several ways we had surpassed the wonders shown in The Jetsons 50-some years ago. We have lots of robots but humanoid ones seem to be less practical.

He then told me about somebody who built robots that were made for agility and were demonstrating it via a parkour demonstration. I started to extrapolate that and realized what should have been obvious: with technology we have now it is perfectly possible to make robots of almost any size (as long as we stay within the hardware limits) and form that can perform any task we can describe and can access processing power and data from outside themselves. Wireless data connections and today’s processor sizes mean that the smallest devices can be extensions of a human expert’s body. We can even use our own minds to decide what a task might entail and download software for the unique task at hand. Think of it: that means a surgical robot could be programmed to innately avoid delicate locations, subject to explicit instructions from a surgeon.

Am I overlooking something?

I suppose it could be a sharp elk hunter too.

So long as you haven’t “jumped the Shark”

Pound sign

Nope barely got started. Those educating machines continue to foul up not following the developmental plan.

Just wait a few years. You’ll think back on hashtags with nostalgia.

If that’s a peak it must be a BLOODY long way down in the trough