MEANWHILE... IN THE FUTURE

Catching rockets with chopsticks isn't the only autonomous tech going on in Elon Musk's world...

- JACK RIX

I’ve just been served a draught mocktail from a suspiciously slick talking robot in a pinny, squeezed past a long queue for the church of merch’ and hitched a ride in a taxi without wheel or pedals down MDF streets of wild west saloons and Manhattan apartment blocks. I’m half expecting to wake up any second in a pool of sweat. Instead, the hallucination continues I strike up a conversation with a dad dancing humanoid robot, it tells me a joke, I wonder why they’ve uploaded the personality of Ned Flanders. I bump into YouTuber and TG contributor Marques Brownlee, hoping for a crumb of normality. This is definitely their most chaotic event,” he confirms. Oh _ look, there’s an inflatable dinosaur in the back of a Cybertruck.”