Derek: Quick, mom, I need some silk!<\/p>\n
Me: Uh…I don’t really own silk anymore, Honeybuns, sorry.<\/p>\n
Derek: Anymore? What happened?<\/p>\n
Me: Clothing styles change? People’s bodies change? Fabrics like silk wear out? Nothing lasts forever.<\/p>\n
Derek: That’s not true. I know something that will last forever.<\/p>\n
Me: Is the answer: a son’s love for his adoring mother?<\/p>\n
Derek: GROSS. *laughs* No. Me. I’m going to last forever. After I get put into a computer, like my brain? And my thoughts and stuff? I’ll be all up in the web wherever I want. And if I wanna know something, I’ll just Google it in my MIND and *boof!* I’ll know everything about all the stuff.<\/p>\n
Me: Are you talking about the Singularity?<\/p>\n
Derek: No. When I invent it, I’m going to call it Compubrain. Or Mindweb.<\/p>\n
Me: And when is this happening?<\/p>\n
Derek: *shrug, lightly…* Oh, I dunno. Maybe this summer, if I’m not too busy with Minecraft.<\/p>\n
Me: Might need to learn some physics first? Or neurobiology? Or more about computers?<\/p>\n
Derek: You don’t get it. I’ll learn that stuff AFTER I’M IN THERE. It’ll be much easier that way.<\/p>\n
That’s my child, everyone. The inventor of “Mindweb”…which he will learn how to create… after he’s created it. Neat trick. Also, you should note, it’s going to sound like “boof<\/em>” when you learn all the stuff and things with your “compubrain.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Derek: Quick, mom, I need some silk! Me: Uh…I don’t really own silk anymore, Honeybuns, sorry. Derek: Anymore? What happened? Me: Clothing styles change? People’s bodies change? Fabrics like silk wear out? Nothing lasts forever. Derek: That’s not true. I know something that will last forever. Me: Is the answer: a son’s love for his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ajaalto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}