Looking ahead =>

One hundred years ago people couldn't communicate with each other very easily. Messengers were a big means at that point. Now, our ability to translate information from one area over to another, to maintain it, and create it as easily as pressing a button has created a tiny world. The planet used to be huge. Now we grow up and we can learn anything, nearly anything, about another country or realm or ocean, whatever, at the drop of a hat. Coincidentally, the progression of mankind's technologies and modern sciences has sped up radically.

Now it is nearly 2010. Hahahah! MAN! It is nearly 2010!

We have the internet, developed so far beyond its original intent and purposes that it is quite literally bodiless, supported all over the world through the very machines that enjoy it and thousands of satellites in the sky. You can see and speak with with people, in real time, over the internet. You can send and retrieve countless terabytes of raw or refined data. People have placed consumerism into it, thoroughly, but also art, poetry, literature. The world wide web is, and this is a little creepy, a human made hive-mind. While it's true people can't be controlled by the internet, well, not entirely anyways, it can convey countless messages. How do the yankees in charge down there make the populace do what it's told? Mostly fear and intimidation tactics, somewhat through their ironic self-glorifying nationalism.

If the technology we have today, I'm talking headsets, miniature cameras, holographic emitters and signal receivers, were all combined and mass produced, then sold cheaply as a government sponsored program everyone in, let's say, Canada, could connect themselves to, in essence, one another. It would alleviate the dependency we have on phones. People could keep the small headset, with optional stylish visor, on and it would do so much for them, at a mere thought. You could communicate with anyone at any time. You could share information just as easily. Hell, you could have bluetooth in it that can access copiers and fax machines and such and simply upload your data into it, should a physical copy actually be needed.

Imagine schooling. Programs, designed by the leading experts in the world can be shared all over the world. Guided by teachers, the millions, because there would rapidly become millions, of programs in the government education sector of the internet would be readily accessible. Books wouldn't need to be printed. That one's scary, actually. Well, actually, books would still be printed. Of course they would. But not for the education system. Theirs would be digital.

Anyways, world of possibilities. Enjoy the bright sunshiny day.

Just thought of this: With the cameras that are built into the system, [one looks at your eyes, to judge at what area your in your field of vision your eyes are looking. another looks forward, told where to look by the smaller first one, and provides the computer an image to breakdown and search] and the holographic emitter, it could project a keyboard a couple inches in front of your face, but at such an angle as to overlay your hands, laid out in front of you as though at an actual keyboard. Then, following your finger strokes, it will create, once again within your filed of vision, a screen of your typed words. The message can then be sent off with a thought, or posted, at a thought. Hell, if the technology is good enough, the brain wave detectors could read more than a name or an address from you, could transcribe your thoughts as instantly as you think them. It would take some getting used to of course. Ad plenty of editing ;) Anyways, yes.

Good day, madams, sirs.