What will the future hold?

i love technology, and sometimes i'm truly impressed. However, i rarely find reason to marvel. Yesterday i got a kick out of the Richmond cop with a Tom Tom GPS navigator on his dash. It's the same one my wife and i have. With dispatchers and low jack and his lap top, he still needs a Tom Tom.

The truly marvelous thing is my Skype experience. For those of you not familiar with Skype, it's fantastic. It's much like AOL or Yahoo messenger, but several more features and a very good video chat interface for your webcam. It also allows you to call or text land/cell lines for a monthly fee, usually cheaper (especially for international) than most phone companies.

So, as i was talking to my cousins in Japan, they added my aunt to the chat. She wasn't at her home in Raleigh or on her computer. She was on her cell phone on Route 75 en route to Baton Rouge. Dick Tracey would never have conceived it.