Also, I read this post of John Scalzi's on the AMC website about how real life in the 21st Century is not like a sci-fi movie despite all our crazy science-fictional tech:
Ask yourself: If all your "science fictional" technology were taken away tomorrow, how much would your identity change? If the answer is "not that much," then you're not really living inside a science fiction movie, regardless of how many gadgets you have.
And then I laughed and laughed, and yet felt too ashamed to post a comment saying "Um, I'm pretty sure if the internet evaporated my life would lose eighty percent of its meaning, although on the bright side I would have a lot more time to take naps."
