We had the computer revolution and all the crap that came from it.
We have the Internet and the stuff that provides. Facebook, Google, iTunes, Intellectual Property theft, porn . . .
We have Tablets and smartphones and things like applications, Google Play, iTunes, The Android Market, etc.
These are big changes. We cannot seem to live a decent life without them. The computer, the Internet and the portable phone are not new ideas; they are improved versions of old game changers.
Your granny once called you on her phone so the phone is not new. In its day, it was a huge game changer. I am looking for things that will revolutionize and astound and amaze. And do not think for a moment this will be an easy question to answer.
Moveable type changed the game. The automobile changed things, the telephone was a game changer as was the internal combustion engine and the Cotton Gin and penicillin and (my favorite) the A-Bomb..
So what is the next big thing? Any guesses? Perhaps discovering we are not alone? Cures for bad diseases, a new form of personal travel perhaps?
Forget microprocessors and computers and software and the Internet. They will change, evolve and improve but they are not new ideas. A molecular PC might be considered to be a game changer. Being able to transfer your brain's contents to the web would perhaps change things.
What I want to know is what is the next big thing to arrive that is fundamentally new and will transform the world.
My guess is it will be preceded with a lower case "i"
Either that, or some biological something that actually kills three quarters of the planet's population. So do not limit your replies to the good; the bad and the ugly can often change things.
We have the Internet and the stuff that provides. Facebook, Google, iTunes, Intellectual Property theft, porn . . .
We have Tablets and smartphones and things like applications, Google Play, iTunes, The Android Market, etc.
These are big changes. We cannot seem to live a decent life without them. The computer, the Internet and the portable phone are not new ideas; they are improved versions of old game changers.
Your granny once called you on her phone so the phone is not new. In its day, it was a huge game changer. I am looking for things that will revolutionize and astound and amaze. And do not think for a moment this will be an easy question to answer.
Moveable type changed the game. The automobile changed things, the telephone was a game changer as was the internal combustion engine and the Cotton Gin and penicillin and (my favorite) the A-Bomb..
So what is the next big thing? Any guesses? Perhaps discovering we are not alone? Cures for bad diseases, a new form of personal travel perhaps?
Forget microprocessors and computers and software and the Internet. They will change, evolve and improve but they are not new ideas. A molecular PC might be considered to be a game changer. Being able to transfer your brain's contents to the web would perhaps change things.
What I want to know is what is the next big thing to arrive that is fundamentally new and will transform the world.
My guess is it will be preceded with a lower case "i"
Either that, or some biological something that actually kills three quarters of the planet's population. So do not limit your replies to the good; the bad and the ugly can often change things.
