My Life in the Cloud

I guess I never realized how much "in the cloud" I truly am.  I thought my online presence was so non existent that I was almost invisible but nope I'm right here, you can see me. 

The blogging topic of the week "Are you in the cloud?" reminded me a lot of this cafe gig I got going on for the time being.  We have a little iPad in replacement of a cash register.  I take peoples' credit cards, run them through an attachment on the iPad and WALLA you have officially paid for your food and drink via a computer app.  After the payment goes through I flip the iPad so it faces the customer and then they have the option of selecting a tip, whether they want their receipt emailed or printed, and then they sign their signature by using there finger to draw on the screen.  I prompt the customer telling them what they are going to have to do just because I think it would be rude to let someone be a bit embarrassed because they don't know what the hell to do when I flip the screen to them.  I don't want them to feel like they are outsmarted by a computer, I guess.  Occasionally I'll get the techy Boulderite who feels the need to quickly let me know "I already know how this works" as if saying "oh my god girl get with it the times are changing and if you don't know this shit well girl you ain't shit."  I mean pretty much, something like that.  But most of the time I get "oh my god, what? Haha, that is too funny" or "wow you've got to be kidding me, what are they going to think of next?"  The other day one girl was so shocked by this technology she just shook her head at me.  I laughed and was like "dude I know one day we're all going to be robots".  We then went on to talk about how scientists are now coming up with something along the lines of an artificial heart.  Think about the tin man from the Wizard of Oz for a second.  He wanted a heart and he wanted to be oiled so he wasn't so stiff, he just wanted to be normal which meant be natural.  Now fast forward to modern times; the tin man is now thinking that its okay he has no heart and it's pretty cool he looks like a robot.  The times are a' changin'. It sounds like I'm saying it's a bad change but I mean its good change for the most part.  Our resources are expanding.  I think any sort of change is a bit scary.  It's scary to think that 10 years ago AT&T promised we would be able to have business conferences "in our bare feet" and they were right.  What seemed like an impossible prediction turned out to be the future.  Makes me wonder what is going to come next.....??? Flying cars and credit cards embedded into our thumb print for the sake of convenience :)