I have recently come across this report made by KRON in 1981, and it gave me an amazing insight on how limited our thoughts of what the internet would be capable of one day were. I find it extremely ironic that I came across this through an email, which I received on my smartphone, which was connected wirelessly to a satellite, which happened to be drifting around in space! As the anchorwoman reports, if the idea of getting the newspaper through a home computer was farfetched then, can you imagine what her reaction would be to how I would access that same report 30 years later?

I also wonder when we stopped referring to them as "home computers", and when it changed from being an extreme luxury to something that is now considered the norm. It is almost impossible to find people from the most recent generations who are not familiar with, or don't have the access to a computer and the Internet on a day-to-day basis. That same technology that in their 1981 thought process was an experiment, with no goals of making money is now the fastest growing medium of communication ever. The Internet has had a huge impact on the way we live, access information, communicate, and do business with each other.

 

What I meant by limited thoughts earlier was not a reference to the IQ levels of then vs. now, it was a reference to how technology was, and still is, advancing at a pace much faster than what we can process, and truly believe in. Back then it took two hours to download a single publication of a newspaper, and it cost U$5 an hour to access that connection, and that is the dollar over 30 years ago. Today that would be the same as spending U$25.71 to buy a single newspaper. Today we could literally download every publication of a newspaper ever, in terms of the cost of data, for less than that of a single newspaper in 1981. So not only is that technology evolving at a pace our minds can't keep up, but it is also becoming a lot more accessible.

Watching that report literally changed the way I look and predict what the future is going to be like. Watching how outrageous it was to think that someday we would be able to read the news from a home computer, makes me think of what are some of the things I consider to be farfetched in my own view of the future. What if I told you in 30 years from now we will all own our private robots, and they will go to work and get things done, while we get to stay home and spend time with our families? Seems crazy doesn't it. Or does it? Will someone come across this blog entry 30 years from now through some sort of psychological internet network, without the use of any device, and think "I have recently come across this blog entry, and it gave me an amazing insight on how limited our thoughts of what the internet would be capable of one day were."