Be careful what you wish for

“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me’.”

~ Philip K. Dick

Growing up, I often thought about how I wanted to live in a world inspired by science fiction. I suppose I should have been a little more specific on what science fiction future I was hoping for.

The ideal was to be in a future similar to that presented in “Star Trek”, Gene Roddenberry’s brainchild which has spawned numerous televisions series and countless movies and gave us the likes of Captain William T. Kirk and Captain Jean Luc Picard,...