Yesteryears: Landline on Party Line. Analog Cell phone the thickness of a 3-layer cake. Walkie Talkie. Walk Man.
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Now: Cordless phone that can send SMS. Cellphones the thickness of your fingernail. Bluetooth headset. MP3 Players that can also play videos and capture images and go online. DVDs. Digital Cameras the size of a matchbox. Computers with Flat screens, 16GB of memory. DVD/ Blueray players. Skype and Video calls.
We all grew up with gadgets. Some around the more sophisticated ones and some with out-dated ones, but gadgets all the same. I am amaze at the pace on how the gadgets evolve.
Cellphones, they are the perfect example.
A cell phone that can store
10 phone book entries with a clock was released some 20 years ago. 5 years
later, the memory, the size, the weight and functionality was drastically
changed. 2 years later the SMS feature was added. And 3-4 years later, you got
a camera, a video recorder, an alarm clock, a game consul, an organizer, voice
recorder, radio, music player on your phone. And a few years later, you got
touch-screen phones and another year after you got wifi-ready phones. Isn’t it
amazing how people create things virtually from scratch? This is just one of
those things that remind us that humanity is capable of great things. Some are
discovered by accident and others take years of research and experimentation to
perfect. Now don’t be surprised that one day you’ll have a phone that is
capable of hologram calls and see your caller in 4d view, in broad daylight
sans the shades!
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