An exoskeleton that enabled me to effortlessly travel 20 mph, carry 500 lbs, and jump up on top of my house, would make me incredibly more useful and open up a lot of options I didn't have before. If you could also leave the exoskeleton in the laundry room to fold all of your laundry while you went and made coffee, that'd be pretty dern amazing.
Of course, you quickly learn you still gotta keep an eye on it lest it get trapped in the laundry room by the Roomba that wandered over there to see what all the excitement was when the skeleton took out your “What Happens in Vegas” hoodie and decided ‘folding’ meant squaring up the whole pile and sliding it off the back of the dryer.
But still! Think of all the whiz-bangery! Walking into the bathroom and telling “Exos” to clean it up for you, and when it found you'd bought too much hemorrhoid cream this time, to go ahead and repair that broken cabinet in the back of the garage and install it over the toilet. And it does it! (Even though it did suddenly power down from 4:39p until 7pm.)
Who wouldn't go on and on (and oooooon) about it on their LinkedIn page (/waves to self). It's brilliant!
Still gotta drive a car mostly. And air travel is still a thing. And deciding what's for dinner, and remembering stuff, and paying bills (lifting 500 lbs isn't that helpful since going off the gold standard), etc.
Oh, and now that yer using it all the time to exo over to the corner store that was too close to get in the car for, you're (a) broke, (b) have an orange tinge from sweating out Doritos powder, and (c) you have baby muscles. The doc is gonna LOVE all that.
Still, I'd like to be able to jump up on my roof. I might get my frisbees out of the new frisbee locker in the garage and get back in shape. Perhaps a dose of CodeMyopia could help us frame what we're all going through: struggling to size it all up and see where the new boundaries are.
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