Soon our automobiles will have enough car gadgets that we will never need to leave them.

We live in the future. If you don't believe me – go drive a modern car with modern car gadgets. Modern cars make captain Kirk's Starship look like like a 1974 Oldsmobile. Allow me to explain, you hop in your car to find that your wife has been driving it. Considering she is three inches shy of dwarfism – your chest and knees are squeezed against the steering wheel.

No problem! With the push of a button the car can remember and restore your settings. Now – it's time to start the car. Remember the old days when you had to start the car by actually putting a key into a slot and TURNING? Not anymore.

You have the key in your pocket – and that's good enough for your car – just push 'start.' “Good morning John says the display that is actually bigger than your grandfather's television. “Where are you going, today?” “Gas Station – Mobil,” you respond out loud to an empty car. “Ding! Mobil station, 1.23 miles.” Don't you just love car gadgets.

That's right. You don't even need to know where you are going in a modern car – it knows for you. “Head east for point one miles,” it tells you. Now – since it is cold outside and you forgot to remotely start your car while you were finishing your morning coffee (cars are a few years off from predicting when you are going to be leaving.) you decide to turn the butt and back warmer on.

And as your body is slowly warming up – you have a conversation with your car. “Weather.” you say. “28 Degrees and cloudy,” your car says. “Stocks.” “Nasdaq down two point six points.” Enough of the bad news. Now you want to listen to music. “Play artist U2.” you say.

Your car, of course, dutifully scans it's catalog of songs which you have transferred via a drive the size of your pinky and finds your favorite U2 song and plays it at a level deemed comfortable for listening to given the volume of the motor at your current speed.

Not one minute into the song and your car gadgets thing announces to you, “Turn right in point one miles.” Just as you're in the middle of your turn your car announces to you “You are receiving a phone call from LIN-DUH.” “Answer.” you say, and with that you are talking to your boss, Linda, who is also driving in her call. She was able to make the call by asking HER car to call you. So clearly – we are living in the future. Cars have replaced maps, CDs, phones, newspapers – you name it. It's only a matter of time until we won't need to ever leave our cars at all. “Bathe me.” we will ask our cars. “Bubbles?” our cars will ask. “Yes, car. Bubbles.”  We live in the future. If you don't believe me – go drive a modern car with modern amenities.