Several times a day, I have to:

Get up from my chair.
Take my cup to the coffee machine.
Press a button.
Wait.
Walk back to my chair.

And at the end of the day, I still have to wash the cup.

Can’t an Optimus bring me coffee already?

We’re in 2026.*

* Sometime around 2004, my friend Nadav complained to me: “We’re in 2004 already, and still…”

His complaint was about Hebrew in Microsoft Word. Copy-paste something containing Hebrew and numbers, and the whole thing would get hopelessly garbled.

Thankfully, it only took another 10–20 years to mostly fix that.