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2010-12-11 03:58:38 ET I live in the future. I remember only a little over a decade ago dreaming of sitting on a toilet, with a cheap laptop on my lap, somehow magically wirelessly connected to the Internet. No, not just any regular internet connection but a broadband internet connection. And here we are now. Or, I guess to be more self-centric, here I am now. Sitting on the john, netbook keyboard beneath my twitching fingertips, connected wirelessly to my fios connection. I never thought I'd have fiber to the premises this soon in life but here it is! I am truly living in the future of my past's self. Where will I be in the next decade? Where will we all be? I am not going to guess randomly. I do not try to predict the way the water of life will flow. Instead I will offer just a slight suggestion. The suggestion that we should stop for a bit and acknowledge how far we come. Not just technologically but personally. All of the skills we've acknowledged. All of the trivia, some useful and some not, that we have now stored in our heads. It's an interesting time. It will always be an interesting time. |
