Years ago I got a chuckle out of Google Maps directions from New York to London, which showed jumping off a shipping dock and swimming to the motherland. Sadly, this demonstration of machines underestimating the capability of man is no longer available at Google Maps. However, today I learned that Kayak.com was clearly not intended for international (non US) travelers. That is unless I’m just not familiar with the 37 hour layovers typical on a routine flight from Beijing to Bangalore.

God help us all when the day comes that we are no longer able to insert our own reason and intellect into the processes of machines. Every day that passes, we get one day closer to the year 2505 where the predictions of the movie “Idiocracy” will inevitably come true. At least then, no one will have the intellect capable of inserting into the reasoning of the machine. That is unless a certain someone by the name of Not Sure awakes from his 500 year cryofreeze. Then we’ll all witness the pinnacle of insanity, like in the scene were “Not Sure” is assigned his identity tatoo.