Do you remember when you purchased your first cell phone?
Today, I was reading my journals. In 1997, when I first moved to Austin, Texas, I marveled in my journal how I went the entire day of talking to no one. It took the phone company about three days to install my phone. And at that time, most people did not have cell phones. In fact, during my entire 2 ½ years in Austin, I didn’t have a cell phone. It was not until I moved to Singapore in 2000, and looked around and realized that everyone had cell phones. Back in the states, only a few sales people or “urgency” people had them.
Today, they are necessity for everyone. My IPhone provides me with bits of information all day long. It allows me to feel “connected” – both in the way people can find me – and the way I can find others.
It is amazing to see how much technology has made an impact on us.
I wonder what we will have in ten years that we don’t have today.
Anyone want to guess?
Could it be the “tablet PC?”
Or a “Kindle” like device for reading books instead of buying actual books?
How about a device that places all of your music wirelessly around your house?
Or computers onboard your auto that gives you the internet while you are driving?
Any guesses?
Monday, September 7, 2009
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It is rarely the "insane innovation" that proves to be the winner. 25 years ago, we thought we'd all be flying to work. Well, we aren't.
ReplyDeleteWe have the iPhone. People are getting it in millions. So there it is! The computer-telephone-internet-network-book reading-news reading device. It's already here. It will just be a version that is a lot better.