Welcome to the future

Happy NEW YEAR!!!!! it's 2011 and grapefruit logic's new years resolution is TO POST MORE OFTEN. (we apologize for our lack of posting as of late, we got lazy/busy you can decide which one is more excusable)

now being that it's 2011 and the technical beginning of the new decade, I'm gonna start it off with a top six list of WHY WE ARE IN THE FUTURE. Now for a little history (har har) for most of the 20th century many sci-fi films where set in the time period that we currently reside in (between 2000-2060.) Many of these films/tv-shows are the standard that we hold the future to. Back to the Future part 2 (2015), The Jetsons (2060), Blade Runner (2019), Star Wars (a long time ago) and many more depict society in the distant to not so distant future. They have gifted us with many imaginative things from hover boards, to flying cars, and many of these things have arrived IN THE REAL WORLD. So here it goes; the top six reasons we are in the future.

6) xbox 360 Kinect

Yes it has yet to be seen how good of a product this will be. But I got one for Christmas and this is what I have to say about it.

1) Nothing is cooler then controlling my TV like Tom Cruise controls computers in Minority Report, (NO HANDS MA!!)

2) IT KNOWS MY FACE. seriously i signed in as my avatar, and when i was on the screen my avatar was playing. Then I left letting my friends take a crack at it for about a half an hour. (when i left the screen my avatar left with me and the xbox assigned random characters to the people playing) When I finally returned BAM my avatar is back. (IT'S WATCHING ME HELP!!!!)

5) Music

If you look at the larger music festivals in the United States right now, many of them will be in the music genre Electronica. (Better known as Techno) Beyond that many music on the top 40 lists are, or have, techno influences. David Guetta, Tiesto, Dead Mau5, Daft Punk, techno is shaping up to be the next big music genre. And you know who else listens to techno... ROBOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats right, the music genre forever held high by the mechanical limbs of our robot overlor-I mean friends is beginning to blossom.

4) Holograms

With the release of James Cameron's "Avatar," which grossed more then a whopping $2 billion, we have now cemented 3D in the American society. Slowly 3D televisions are being sold on a daily basis, and soon Nintendo will be releasing a 3D handheld system that doesn't even require 3D glasses; the Nintendo 3DS. Now while these are not the holograms that one would expect, it is a step in the JAWS 10/"Letting the Wookie Win" direction. Along with this companies product a real hologram projector WE ARE ON OUR WAY.

3)Mobile Television

From Phones, to tablets most people cary at least one, if not two ways to watch tv or movies instantly on their person at any given moment. Most of this is due to a combination effort

between Google and Apple. This was every childs dream when growing up.(or at least mine) "what?!?! I can watch my cartoons in class as long as i hide it from the teacher. SOLD" (*warning* the men and women at Grapefruit Logic do not in any way support watching cartoons during school, all children who do watch television in class and have there phones taken away by angry over reacting teachers as a consequence are not responsibilities of this website/blog or any of our affiliates.)

2)Video chat

Almost all versions of the future had video chat, and though to a certain extent we have been able to video chat since the 90s. It was to expensive and only really adopted in the last 5 years. This one being mostly to blame on apple computers(thank you Steve Jobs and whomever makes your turtle neck sweaters), and Skype. Many corporations use it daily, and love struck high-school sweethearts separated by "college long distance relationships" use it hourly. Plus now with most new smart phones being released with front facing cameras, video chat is being taken on the road. Congratulations, you too can now be using video chat, just to give the finger in live full color to that asshole down the block that keeps taking up two spaces with his truck anywhere you please.

1) Sadly number one is not hover boards, teleportation, moon/mars bases, space elevators, faster then light travel, or flying cars. But they are cars.

From Gearlog.com

Google has, in fact, created a self-driving car--not only that, the company took it on a test drive down the coast of California, from its Mountain View campus to its office in Santa Monica.Then, naturally, they cruised the thing down Hollywood Boulevard.And this isn't the first time Google has taken the car out into the wild. Past exertions have included Lombard Street (the world famous "crookedest street"), the Golden Gate, the Pacific Coast Highway, and the circumference of Lake Tahoe. The car has driven some 140,000 miles--with trained operators on-board, naturally.The goal of the vehicle is "to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people's time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use," according to the company. The cars (yes, cars plural) utilize video cameras, radar sensors, and lasers (that's how you know it's from the future) to spot other traffic. Built-in maps, meanwhile, help the vehicles navigate the road.The car is in constant contact with Google's data centers, which process all of the information gathered by the vehicles.In all, Google seems confident of the potential of its crazy future car, "We're also confident that self-driving cars will transform car sharing, significantly reducing car usage, as well as help create the new 'highway trains of tomorrow

DID YOU READ THAT, IT HAS HAPPENED, WE HAVE SELF DRIVING CARS. Which for all of us alchohol consumers, this means you DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DRIVING DRUNK. Mind you these probably won't be released for a while. but still.

The second part to this whole thing is the TESLA/PRIUS/EV1 and EV2 Electric cars are becoming a natural and normal thing. AND SOON THEY WILL DRIVE THEMSELVES.

(on second thought, FUCK ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD DAMN YOU TERMINATOR AND THE MATRIX FOR GIVING THEM THE IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE.)