Thing 7: Technology


This could go on indefinitely as just in my lifetime technology has completely taken over our lives in both visible and invisible ways. It was not that many years ago when something as simple as cable television was a novelty (remember the first day of MTV?). And when computers were just beginning to make their appearance and every command had to be entered manually on a monocolor screen. Compare that to now where there are more channels than programs it seems, and computers do everything but think for you. CNN even experimented with a live hologram of one of their correspondents on election day. I can only imagine what the world will be like in 25 years. Already there are viable patents on flying cars and invisibility suits. Even in the library technology is making itself known. With electronic downloads of books, and even (someday) RFI technology, it makes me think that maybe Star Trek wasn't so sci-fi after all.....