There is already a significant difference from 2002 technology and 2012 technology and really the year 1982 looks like we are in another planet. Not much changed in the world of technology throughout most of the latter end of the 20th century but it looks like we are seeing an explosion of technology in the last 10 years. Technology is going to continue to evolve and the technology of 2002 is probablty going to be retro in the year 2022 and the technology now might be retro and vintage in the year 2032.
It looks like we are moving forward in technology and it looks like we are going back in technology as well. You don't see people confined to TV screens as much as it was in the later part of the 20th century - it seems like people are returning to books and playing games, along with going uptown to hang out than to isolate yourself with the family as it was during the 1970s and 1980s.
Lets look to see how technology changed in the last 10 years. About 10 years ago, the home computer was becoming the standard and a lot of people were still using dial-up internet. The internet was pretty simplistic and you didn't have Facebook or YouTube. You had Amazon and eBay, and Yahoo was a bigger search engine than Google. Desktop computers were the standard and many of them were using the Windows 98 or 2000 operating system, while Windows XP was a luxery. The internet was mostly wired and laptops were for the real rich. Smartphones and tablets did exist but it was not a teenage toy but it was more a toy for business.
The 1990s was the era when the computer and the internet has revolutionized the workplace and the school enviroment while the 2000s is when the internet has crept into the home and it came into the hands of teenagers. The internet was in a dark age in the 2000s where most of the internet was made of opinions and blogs just like mine. But in the 2010s is when there is another revolution in computers.
In 2012, it looks like the desktop is becoming obsolete and even the iPod is becoming more and more obsolete. Who listens to an iPod anymore? Now the internet has turned into a downloading machine to a streaming machine and it is starting to take over other things beside the computer. For a while, the computer was the only place where you can access the internet but the internet is starting to integrate into the TV, the phone, the car, the radio, and eventually the internet is going to integrate into the bathtub or something weird like that. It will be cool when you can set the scenery with some background and have some music playing while you are taking a bath, along with having an accurate temperature and pressure adjustment, along with showing how much water you are wasting and when you should shut it off. That might be the technology of the future.
The internet could be in something crazy like the refrigerator - it will show your nutrition and it will even make it able to shop for your food on the internet on your fridge. But people do need to go to the grocery store just to have a social life! You can probably set parental controls on the fridge so you can keep the kids from being obese. But the SmartFridge might be a little bit too whacked out because I like my good old fashioned refrigerator.
But I can see some practical use of technology in something like a car - check your Facebook and Tweet where you are driving while getting into an accident. Unless we make cars self driving. You have to concentrate on the road - not Facebook.
But I can see some people are not going to adapt to the modern technology and we might like the simpler things in life such as playing with a real live animal cat and actually screwing the girls is better than the virtual sex. That is going to be one bad thing about the internet expanding to other things - you'll be seeing pornographic images on the ceilings of teenagers bedrooms, but at least your parents can check what your teen is viewing on the web.
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