| As 2009 slowly winds down and the birth of the | | | | the technology to keep people out of bumper to |
| 2010 New Year is just around the corner, nine years | | | | bumper accidents but fail to implement the |
| into the millennium and the world is still behind the | | | | technology due to the fear of lawsuits resulting from |
| eight ball in futuristic technology. At the end of 2009, | | | | a failure in the new technology. Mankind has slowed |
| there are no flying cars, no Mars space stations, and | | | | futuristic progress by laying down the hammer of |
| no space trips for everyday people to the moon and | | | | legal protectionism that prevents failure from |
| back. | | | | becoming an option. |
| In 2010, mankind will face everyday reality of rumors | | | | Strides in American medicine have hit the skids simply |
| of wars, a depressed world economy, and unrealistic | | | | because the Federal Drug Administration is slow in |
| political promises that no one could ever full fill in a | | | | approving landmark meds for treatments of |
| lifetime. Welcome to 2010. Another in a series of hum | | | | catastrophic diseases. Every year, telethon's raise |
| drum years following a 2000 New Year that was | | | | countless millions of dollars to help find "The Cure" |
| supposed to be the beginning of a robust new | | | | and donors are left with bank receipts and promises |
| century. | | | | that maybe next year will be the year for the cure. |
| The world moves at a snails pace in changing | | | | 2010. A year of change. The promissory note that |
| economic circumstances, humanitarian welfare, and | | | | governments offers mankind an opportunity to |
| technology. Sometimes I think were still living a 1960's | | | | change but fails to provide the necessary tools, laws, |
| lifestyle with 2009 inflation. Faces of music change | | | | and training to implement change. |
| from time to time but old fashioned rock-in-roll still | | | | If the new millennium's legacy has left us anything is |
| takes prescient over modern day contemporary | | | | the reality that some things never really change. |
| music. Oldie radio stations continue to draw swarms | | | | Faces, demographics, political parties, and ideas |
| of yesterdays' rock-n-rollers and the baby boomers | | | | change but anything futuristic beyond plasma |
| refuse to give up on aging Alice Cooper's and Beach | | | | screens, is unlikely. The world's leaders changes |
| Boys. | | | | window dressings in the beginning of each New Year |
| The truth is obvious, mankind is slow to change and | | | | and by year's ends, are placing more band-aids on a |
| lack the willingness to pursue new endeavors in | | | | wounded world that doesn't seem to be improving at |
| futuristic technology in fear of legal entanglements. A | | | | all. |
| friend once told me that the automotive industry has | | | | |