Today’s Technology Stagers the Mind

James Bond with his exploding pens, weapon laced cars, remote control starters, cel phones and other gismos and gadgets wowed audiences world wide. Now we hardly think about all the latest and greatest technology that is constantly being unveiled. Amazing technology has almost become commonplace. Our children were recently at an Apple store checking out the new iPads. They are remarkable. When we were first married my husband was a data processing engineer. He ran the big computers for his company and did a back up on them each night. A room full of computers, kept within a very small temperature range, he wore a white suit, the area was dust free and secluded. Now we have more memory and capacity on an iPad than those computers costing his company $10,000 a piece had. Technology is really incredible.

Our son just got the new iPhone 4. The Boston app’s alone are staggering. That phone can do everything, know everything. He has learned to cook using his phone. It tells him recipes, where to buy the ingredients, who has them at the cheapest prices, what stores are closest to him. His phone tells him of restaurants, entertainment, concerts, traffic problems, its a gps, a phone, an iPod for music, it has internet, computer capabilities, e-mail, texting and enough apps to keep him busy for years. James Bond may have been futuristic in his days, but it is nothing compared with the technology we have today. Where will we be in 25 or 50 years? It is a staggering concept.

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