My girlfriend got the new iPhone 4S this week, and I am completely jealous. Although it is not the iPhone 5 yet, there are many awesome qualities about the new phone that my doesn't phone have. Now I am in no way "suffering", because I have an iPhone 3GS, but I still am "longing" for the new technological improvements of this brand new digital tool. However, this nation of ours is changing so rapidly that it is simply impossible to keep up unless you have unlimited funds.
There is a Best Buy commerical (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZAAZ7iXN-o) that explains exactly what my point is; creativity in this day and age is absolutely amazing and I have no idea how it is happening this quickly. I grew up in a time where VCRs were the way to play movies, every household used their landlines primarily, laptops were uncommon and very expensive, dial-up internet was a privilege, and my arm would get tired manually rolling up the windows to my dad's truck. Now a lot of these events seem somewhat "ancient" to me, but in reality all of the ideas were fairly new at the time and then were quickly outdated by something newer.
I am not at all against this giant wave of technological improvement. I just do not have a brain that can fully comprehend how all of these magnificent changes are happening, and happening at such a ridiculous speed. It makes me extremely curious how different events such as communication, transportation and internet surfing will be in only 15 years. Our world is changing so rapidly, will my grandkids or even kids know what a DVD player or XBOX 360 is? Who knows.
This made me laugh at first remembering back to all of the things you listed, VCR's and rolling up windows in cars, but then I started thinking about it and you are right. It is intimidating at how fast technology is continually progressing every day. I mean just in the past five years phones have come leaps and bounds along with ipod becoming a household name. Will it begin to expand too fast for its own good? Like you said, who knows?
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