Erik Olson pointed this one out to me. Apple never boosts expectations before a show — or rather, they haven’t done so since the “Mac for the rest of us” campaign before the iMacs — but at five days and counting until the Macworld show in San Francisco, that’s unquestionably what they’re doing.

I asked Erik what he thought it might be: “Immortality? Wearable computers? Working nanotech? Peace in our time, the resurrection of the dead, and life in the world to come?”

“Something like that,” he said.