Living in the future
Last week when I was a few thousand miles away from my wife, we used our video phones to talk with each other. The hardest part of the experience was figuring out how prop up the phone so we didn’t have to hold it in front of us the whole time.
When we were at the museum Saturday, my wife saw a reference book they left in one of the galleries for people to use. I took a photo of the cover with my phone, submitted it to Amazon.com, it analyzed the image, found the book in stock and it offered to sell me my own copy.
When I was young, that’s the kind of stuff you saw on science fiction shows. My iPhone does more than the comlinks on Space 1999. OK, it’s 14 years after 1999 too, so maybe it should.
Everyone, including me, complains about the lack of flying cars. But, some of the stuff we did get is pretty cool.