Welcome to the world of tomorrow

[sawyl]

Its easy to lose track of just how SFnal everyday life has become but every so often, something comes along to remind you. Like being able to video chat with my parents on their boat somewhere in the Greek islands. Or realising that my the computer sat on my desktop has roughly twice the storage of the supercomputer we used a decade ago.

But somethings remain a disappointment: no flying cars; no mission to Jupiter; no HAL 9000. Actually, now that I think about it, it might be best to scratch that last one...