If I told you twenty years ago that you would be able to pull a handheld device out of your pocket and access the sum of all human knowledge instantaneously tha

If I told you twenty years ago that you would be able to pull a handheld device out of your pocket and access the sum of all human knowledge instantaneously that would be crazy. But wait… you can also listen to your entire music collection, or any digital music ever produced, watch movies, play complex games, read any book, have GPS tracking, take pictures, made videos, make phone calls and video calls... all on one device. I think the average person would call you insane back then. Its easy to say now how it was bound to happen but as the recent Katie couric and gumbel clip shows they didn’t even know what the internet was in 1994! In 1990 most people didn't even have computers. Cell phones didn't even start becoming commonplace in the US until less than 10 years ago. As we move through life gradually we don’t notice as much the continuous change that occurs all around us everyday. But if I transported you directly from 1990 to today, you better believe you would be astonished. Humanity in general progresses at an exponential rate. More change happened in the 20th century than all of previous history. More change will probably occur in the first 25-30 years of the 21st century than the entire 20th century. So yes, a lot of these things are possible. And other , much more interesting things we can't imagine or even comprehend now will be around in 2030, too.