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Now that many new cars are coming with have high-def wide-angle rear view cameras, I don't really need my neck muscles anymore. At some point we'll "evolve" to rocks... rocks with wifi.

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That reminds me of a TED talk I saw where the speaker was saying that something he's noticed with a lot of academics and tech types is that they only care about flexing their mental muscles; their bodies are only useful for moving their brain from one place to another, so a lot of what they build is done to make it so they have to use their bodies less.

https://www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson

My experience in Silicon Valley is that tech workers are drastically more fit than the general public.

Except for the brain works better when the body is healthier.

I am thinking, evolve more like people in WALL-E. Blobs of flesh with no muscle definition or ability to use them.

"In The Year 2525," from the year 1969: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_2525 (youtube link in "External" section is weak, try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew01FGfOZdE)

I picture something more like floating, life-extension vats where people spend their whole lives, getting entertainment, VR images, and drugs piped into their brains. Robots will do everything else.

Living involves the acts of experiencing the real world and doing things for yourself.

That's already a thing: https://hackaday.io/project/2058-wifi-rocks

So basically like the people in WALL•E .

as much as "rocks with wifi" made me giggle, it also made me sad cause its very true.

That's where fat acceptance has brought us.

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