I got a Pebble smart watch a little while back. The most interesting app is Pebble Mars, it delivers the most recent pictures from the Curiosity Rover cameras as a watch face. Most of the time the images are pretty boring, just sand and rocks. I was going to delete the app because of this but I left it on for a reason I couldn’t put my finger on. After some time it finally dawned on me that I was seeing pictures of another planet, taken by a robot and beamed across miles of empty space to hit a really tiny moving target, received and scanned for aliens by NASA, then posted to the net in as little as 12 hours and finally collected from a distant server by my watch. I have a surface view of another planet on my wrist. I can just check out what is happening on Mars any time I feel like it. And I almost thought it was boring, glad I saved myself from a world where I take a glimpse of the cyberpunk future for granted.