Technology is growing exponentially. Look at mobile phones alone. I remember when, about 20-25 years ago, I shut down my old VHF mobile telephone system and became a cellular agent.
It was such a big deal...A phone in a bag, and an antenna on the car roof. It was also exclusive. One had to be subjected to a credit check just to be connected.
Today, every poor kid around me has one or two pocket phones that take excellent photographs in addition to texting and making calls. Between my wife and I, we have 3-4 of them. Our 3 yr old boy plays games on one, only when his I-pad is charging. We get instant text from anywhere in the world, and to think, we live in a third world country.
Dwarfing mobile communications is the internet. Just look at how it has progressed and changed the world over the last 25 years. For me it opened the entire world, and has influenced my life beyond my imagination. If not for the internet, I would probably still be in Tennessee, dreaming of that once in a lifetime Caribbean cruise.
Just imagine life when all of this will be on a chip, glued in under one’s scalp....Beam me up Scotty !
Last year they were going to put a dish in our community that would have cell coverage about 20 miles up and down the Yukon. Then one of the Greenies got to thinking that cell phones caused cancer and stopped the whole deal, now no cell phones. Actually, I'm somewhat glad. No cellphones, no cops,no organized local govt, no ordinances, no crime, no taxes;;; life is good.
The trend that I see is the internet going south. It's the ads, for starters, and Google too ... commercialism. It's becoming just like TV. You can't move a muscle without getting buried in ads.
Kind of miss those clunky bag phones. They had plenty of power and could get a signal in places where todays dinky phones won't dream of working. I travel quite a bit on back roads in the Ozarks and if you're not in town or on a main road your not talking nor texting much less internetting.