I’ve always loved the Back the Future trilogy. There was something so very exciting about watching them in the 80’s (something that had next to nothing to do with my crush on Alex P. Keaton.
Kids flying around on hoverboards, cars that flew and used garbage to create a nuclear reaction, video games you played only with your mind.
We’re now living in “Back to the Future”’s future and I must admit I’m pretty astonished at what the internet can allow us to do.
I just bought a friend the gift of giving literacy classes in Cambodia as his birthday present It took me less than 3 minutes.
In New York a boy saw an intriguing girl in the subway. He was too shy to talk to her, but upon regretting it he made a website with a drawing of her and actually tracked her down and they ended up dating!
A guy traded one red paperclip for a house using the internet to find potential traders.
And while I don’t yet have a hoverboard if the internet can do all this I’m not giving up hope on that yet either!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Forward to the future
Added Jan 6, 2010, Under: the future
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