Census 2006

[gwenfairysong]

I just finished doing the 2006 Census on-line. It took be two bloody hours. I fucking hate it. All these stupid questions. I understand that it is useful to keep track of what's going on in the population of this country but it's so bloody long. I guess it's better than someone calling me at God knows when and asking me these questions for two stupid hours. There might be nothing I detest more than phone surveys. Telus has been trying to call me to conduct one. They called me one time while I was asleep. The lady on the other end asked me if it was a bad time and I said yes because I was SLEEPING. In her defense it was 9am but I am unemployed which means I stay up late sending resumes out and then I sleep in. But still I get cranky when I am awaken, especially if it is for a stupid survey. But I digress. The questions on the 2006 Census were typical enough except for one which got me thinking. The question was if I would allow them to make my census information public 92 years from now, in the year 2085 or some shit like that. Why would they want to do that for? I won't even exist anymore, at least I don't think I will. Hey, you never know. Who will care how many weeks I specifically worked in the year 2005. I understand if they want to use the information to compare to other years in the future but why ask me if they can make it public? It's just weired.

I can't even fathom the year 2085. Will there be flying cars? Will we have to take injections to stop us from feeling emotions and will all the males resemble Christian Bale? (I like that future, the Christian Bale part not the not feeling aspect.) We will be able to predict a crimes before they happen using psychic twins? Will Tom Cruise still be a Scientologist? Will we have boldly gone where no one has gone every gone before? We can never know because in 2085 we will be dead or reincarnated as maple trees. Will there even be maple trees 92 year from now? It's hard to tell