Living in the Future!
Today while running I was listening to a Chinese Science Fiction ( The Dark Forest ), translated to English, and recorded as an Audio book in a Studio in some corner of the world, that I downloaded from Audible over airwaves using Cellular 4G - from a server in US or Singapore - to my iPhone. And as I listened through my head phones, almost at the exact quality it was recorded, the phone was tracking my run with the help of Geo Synchronous Satellites far up in the sky orbiting earth - I was wondering - man how lucky I am. This is like living in a Future I couldn't have imagined 30 years back. Humans have progressed from Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Medieval, Industrial to the current Information Age. I can't place if we are in the middle or just at the threshold of Information Era. We were slowly cruising in the Information Age - from Mainframes to Laptops to mobile phones and having incremental improvements in every field. Out of the blue, Steve Jobs, went a...