wrrr... Wrrr.... WRRR!... (Wrr-wrr!) Dom dom Dom dom

It seems that Clarke/Kubrick (though less so Nietschze himself) speculated incorrectly and in fact, Zidane is the over-man to modern man which the weapon-wielding primate is to the weaponless primate. Once astronomers find the monolith in space and retro-plot its trajectory we will surely find that it aligned with the Sun, Alpha Centauri, Earth and Zizou's head at the exact spatiatemporal point of contact with Materazzi's now Shroud of Turim-caliber relic of a jersey.

Evolutionarily it makes sense. First we forgo the chimpanzee's opposable toe, preferring a specialized arch. We become fast and lissome and willowily-armed. Soccer invented. Head-controlled vehicles developed for quadriplegics, consumer models surely coming. Autopilots. Segways. Voice-activated everything. And then all the technology becomes invisible.

But will it ever be practical for humans to be floating heads tentacling a ball around a field? No no... . . . : We are going the way of dolphins and seals! Costner was actually onto something. Today soccer, tomorrow hands-free blitzball!