Dwelling on the past too much ? Look at what the future may hold. Got this from technology timeline from BTexact Technologies.
2003 - Devices registered in homes won't work if stolen.
2005 - widespread use of virtual reality for education and recreation
- Voice control of many household gadgets
-Frequent use of multiple Net identities causes personality disorders.
2006 - First organism brought back from extinction
- Emotionally responsive toys
2010- Use of human's own tissues to grow replacement organs
-highest earning celebrity is synthetic
-Household access by facial recognition
2012- DNA computer
2013- Kitchen rage caused by electronic gadgets
2015- Shower body scan
- Computer and robots become superior to humans
-desktop computer as fast as human brain
2020- 3D home printers
2030-human hibernation in space travel
2075-humans assimilated into Net
-Time travel invented
2100- Faster-than-light travel
-Immortality. Chip people move into cyberspace.
Just imagine the possibilites. One day we will be able to zap the few remainding JW's to another part of the universe.