What do you see when you look in the mirror?

What do I see when I look in the mirror? Depends on the mirror.

I attended a seminar yesterday about the potential perils a poorly written Additional Insured protocol could present to the average insurance agency. (That's a lot of P's) I swear that lawyers get some kind of federal kickback for the amount of certified mailings they recommended.

So I left with brain full of relevant knowledge, ready to take on the biggest risk management problems the world could throw my way. No one could stop me. I was like an insurance freight train angrily chugging my way through crowds of puppies and helpless hamsters. Like a bucket full of ice cold, watery knowledge sitting among the hot, scalding sands of a Middle Eastern desert. I felt necessary!

Until I got in the car.

It's amazing the financial, and risk products that have been created. Exotic instruments like 3/1 ARM and reverse mortgages, E&O insurance that covers the lone peril of screwing up an additional insured endorsement, investment vehicles, life insurance policies that can be bought and sold on the open market by people who bank on the chance that you or I might step out of our house and get struck by lightning tomorrow.

And forget the finance industry. How about every day life? Cars that park for you, phones that can get you to Facebook in the middle of a forest, shoes with electric warmers so your feet don't get cold, genetically modified bananas that give you 100% if your daily vitamins without the 'hassle' of taking a supplement, an ab machine that vibrates and works our your core while you sit on the couch eating a Steak-um sandwich, lights that change with your mood, electronic eyes for the blind, electronic ears for the deaf, biodegradable pocketbooks, new breeds of dogs, flavor-tripping berries that change the way foods taste when you eat them.... there's even a vaccine for the AIDS virus that's being tested!

We can do it all! The irrelevant is being upgraded to relevant, the surprising is no longer surprising, the unexpected is expected... the impossible is possible! The future isn't the future... the future is now! If you wait too long, the future becomes the past and you're left standing there with an eraser-less pencil and a broken graphite tip.

Great things are happening. We are evolving at technological pace we simply never dreamed of. Soon, we'll all live to be 200 and we'll all look good doing it.

So why can't we invent a mirror where the objects appear as close as they actually are?