Welcome to our future

     For decades our society has speculated at what the future is going to look like. Flying cars, jetpacks, integrated cerebral cortex manipulators for communication, and a much feared cybernetic military force. Since the computer became a more popular home entity, we have wondered when we would reach the limit of our own ingenuity. Well, I am here to say that I is here. Many of the things we have postulated about have not only come to be (though in ways we didn't exactly predict) and I am also here to say that ignorance in the strives of the technological field should really no longer be appreciated.
How many times has one heard the phrase much a somewhat older person saying “ Oh, I don't get that new technology”, when the topic of computers comes up? Well, the fist commercialized computer was the IBM 5100 and the Apple II in 1975 and 1977 respectively. This means that the technology for your average consumer to both buy and figure out how one of these “new” devices has been around for the last 34 years. My own mother was 7 back then, and she herself is somehow still not that tech savvy.             Let me reiterate this; 34 years, almost three and a half decades. You average person has, at this day and age, more has had enough time to learn how a computer works. Heck, the technology itself dates all the way back to the late 30's, let alone when people could buy it.
      Let me also say that I understand that you basically had to have a minor in computational technology to use some of the first PCs and Apples, but every year the User Interface only gets easier for one to use. I mean, can you believe more people still don't understand the process of computers when pretty much all of our financial assets, from you check at your job to stock holdings, are handled by these machines. This proceeds on if you mention the internet, which some people still refer to as “New Technology”. Now the internet has been actually been globalized to the public since 1981, but the internet as we know it has been truly popularized since 1994. So, 15 years of this life changing technology that forces us to rethink the entire process of communication through text....and to this day a large portion of the populace still ignores it. I have wondered, what is it truly going to take for everyone to catch on to this?

     Though this is a Tech Blog, it should be noted it took 20 years and massive reinventions for the freakin' car to take hold of the populace of the world. It has now been 35 for the computer, and yet with it's many price reductions and Microsoft's latest marketing campaign of an adorable 7 year old using both Vista and Windows 7, how difficult can it really be? For decades mankind demanded the future, and when it arrives it scares the crap outta them, so much so they just pretend it doesn't exist. Well, I have had enough. I am done pandering to the minority that refuses to advance because they think it is an inconvenience to recognize convenience.

    Please, take interest in the tech world, for if you so like the ideals of a society that strives to progress in making the future not only a reality, but a better reality, then let us unite and let the world know that you cannot hold us back.