In the future, there will be a superconnected global network of billions of adding machines, each one of which has more power than all pre-1901 adding machines put together. One of the primary uses of this network will be to transport moving pictures of lesbian sex by pretending they are made out of numbers.

-Eliezer Yudkowsky, in a post on the difficulty of predicting the future.

Mini-contest: who can come up with the best line, modeled on Eliezer’s? Here’s all I’ve got:

In the future, the need to engage in physical labor for basic necessities like food will be almost entirely eliminated for vast portions of the population. People will nevertheless continue to devote the bulk of their lives to repetitive tasks they despise.

Who can top this?