The Future is Now

While battling headwinds in to work this fine, blustery morning, I saw a truly 21st century moment:

He looked like a street person. Scraggly-beard, indifferently-clean garments, etc. He certainly had no solid reason to be sitting in front of an abandoned storefront at 4:45 am.

On his lap was a laptop. The glow from the laptop screen drew my eye to him. Next to him, connected to the laptop by a cable, was an LCD monitor. He seemed to be watching movies or something similarly-entertaining from the smile on his face.

I have no idea if he was running on battery power or tapped into the building somehow.

He looked homeless and he was watching movies, possibly-online. So very 21st century.