What could possibly be more cool than a Dick Tracy TV wrist watch?! As a 7 year old kid I would fantasize about the future where you could actually watch Gilligans Island while walking to school.
In my imagination the future held flying cars, Star Trek style communicators, force fields and maybe even a moon base. While (to my knowledge) there are still no force fields or moon bases, I had no inkling of a laptop computer (in pink), Internet, digital cameras, and 3G technology where I could be wirelessly wired into the world anywhere, anytime.
It has occurred to me that Captain Kirk could have used a Bluetooth head set for a private conversation instead of thumping his chest badge and having his crew or enemies privy to all his conversations.
I'm still a dreamer and gadget lover....my TV watch is a reality now, so I'm waiting for the TV where the images walk off the screen and present themselves as digital perfect 3-D images in the middle of my living room. I want cars to hover and cold fusion to power the world. What else could the future hold that, like my 7 year old self, I can't even imagine? Perhaps super colliders, micro black holes, genetically engineered people with wings, and brown dwarfs in our solar system.....
While I was exploring touchscreen monitors online I ran into this totally cool video on youtube which inspired a trip down memory lane, a thought to the future and this blog entry!
1 comment:
I enjoyed this post. It use to be that only the elderly could say "when I was a kid..." , but the way technology keeps evolving, I sometimes have to explain to kids in my store what dial-up internet was, or that floppy disks arent actually floppy.
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