The Wave of the Future

My friend Joseph always tried to convince me that Mini-Disc was the wave of the future. I don't like being the guy that always says, "I told you so" but I really did "tell him so." At one point I tried to convince him that he should lose the Mini-Discs in favor of MP3s. At the time these were both burgeoning technologies and who could have known MP3s were going to win out...ok I did... It's like the time i was in Germany and they had just released the Euro and I thought to myself "gee, I could buy 4 Euro's for a dollar. I bet those are going to just go up in value," then did nothing about it. I would have really scored big. I really should just go with my gut more often. My uncle was telling me that the government is going to destroy the dollar by introducing a pan-North American currency called the "Amero." He usually follows it with talk of how we are building a super-highway that will allow Mexican truck drivers to go straight to Canada. I don't even know why that is a bad thing. In fact it might push our illegal alien problem off on our northern buddies. Anyways, my gut is telling me "no" on this one... I don't know where he gets these ideas. They sure are fun though. Yeah...so in conclusion, Mini-discs are like the 8-tracks of the nineties. They are fun to have but pretty useless.