Is this a Cool World or What?

I'm a dinosaur who grew up in an age when the sole home wizardry device, the television remote, actually had a cable attached to the TV. The TV received, on a good day, three commercial stations and one educational channel if the foil on the rabbit ears was adjusted just so. 

Hell, for much of my childhood, I was the TV remote, changing the channels as one or the other parent wished, a duty that each younger sibling inherited as part of the maturation process in our family.

Half a century on and not only has video killed the radio star, but guys can check their motility by glancing at their smartphones (not sure about cleaning the display screens, but I'll confess to not having asked). 

And making headlines at this year's Consumer Electronics Show was the exciting news that we are mere heartbeats away from never having any need or reason to lace up our own sneakers sorry, sports shoes again. 

What hath God wrought? It would seem an answer to Karla's question, finally.
-bill kenny