I think that I may finally be living in the future

[nmg]

I've just followed the landing of a spacecraft on another planet from the comfort of my armchair.

Comments

[pinguthegreek]

I suspect we will be the last generation to think of tv, phones and computers as separate devices. Your boys will take this stuff for granted.

[ext_31109]

Personally I've been more impressed by the nature of the BBC's online Olympics coverage. Every event, live or at your pleasure afterwards, annotated and linked. That really feels like the future. Instead of being bored by pundits wittering on while things get set up I can click around to see /my/ highlights, the moments I care about, the events and people I'm interested in. I watched about a dozen events over the weekend, some of them would probably have been on the TV anyway (though surrounded by tedious punditry) but others would not. I doubt many people care about 50m pistol shooting (no Team GB) for example but the coverage was there for me nonetheless

[jorune]

It is an extraordinary notion. I can just picture a young boy in the past telling his parents that this would happen. They look at him with a 'not in my lifetime' look.