more about that damned phone.

I am usually the last person in the world to start raving about a telephone, but I’m feeling the opposite of buyer’s remorse about my new phone. What would that be? Buyer’s elation?

I’ve been thinking that these new smartphones are what Kitchen Aid mixers were to the 1950s. They made everyday life an order of magnitude easier. Now I can blog (seriously! there’s a WordPress app on my phone), catch up with my friends on Facebook, check e-mail and of course, use the phone. I’m still getting the hang of it all, but I see my life becoming a little more streamlined all because of a tiny computer that I can hold in my hand. Woo-hoo for the 21st century!

Which actually got me to thinking today…how freaking cool is it that while I’m sitting in my car waiting in line for the car wash, I can think about my friend in Dubai, and proceed to communicate with her all on this little tiny object no bigger than the size of my hand? This was blowing my mind today.

What will happen in the future? Will someone’s thoughts one day pop into another person’s inbox in their brain? Will we break the physical wall that divides us from the spiritual world? Will a robot clean my house like Rosie on the Jetsons?

My guess is that cave people never dreamed of the way we live now, but it sure is fun dreaming of how people will live in the distant future. That is, if we don’t destroy ourselves and the planet first.