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<\/a><\/p>\nHow does this work again?<\/em><\/h6>\nJust… think about that. \u00a0Twenty years ago, people were just getting online. There was no Google. \u00a0There was Webcrawler<\/a>, which if you were too young to remember it, be grateful. \u00a0You couldn’t use the phone while you were surfing the web or checking email because it used your phone line. \u00a0You probably had a calculator. \u00a0Think about it. \u00a0It was probably about as big as your current phone. \u00a0If you wanted to find something in a library you still needed to use a card catalog. \u00a0If you wanted to buy a book, you went to the bloody store. \u00a0You bought things from a JC Penny’s magazine. \u00a0You found something in a crappy pseudo-book someone mailed to you, then you called a person up, on that crap phone, with your order between the hours of 8 and 6. \u00a0You might have wrote them a check.<\/p>\nLets go ahead and fast forward to now. \u00a0Lets say you have an iPhone. \u00a0It has between 3,200x and 26,200x the memory of my family’s first computer. \u00a0Want a more detailed look of how far computers have come in 30 some years? \u00a0Try this<\/a>. \u00a0Well, that’s comparing the computers of yesteryear, the first personal computers to our modern day smart phones. \u00a0If you’ve got a tablet, you’re holding science fiction technology in the palm of your hand.<\/p>\nYour music collection might still be on CDs, but chances are it isn’t. \u00a0Even if you still buy CD’s you bring it home, pop the disc in your computer once and put that thing in a digital library that probably contains THOUSANDS of songs. \u00a0To listen to any one of them, all you have to do is search, and click play. \u00a0Before I went to college, I thought people were lying to me when they said that they could download and watch whole movies, now its rare that I even bother going to get a physical copy of a movie that I want to own. \u00a0When I went on vacation as a kid, I had to find room to pack two or three extra paperbacks, just to make sure I had enough reading material. \u00a0Now, I have an eReader that currently holds nearly 400 books and it weighs less than a single paperback, takes up less room, and has a built in light, and connects to wireless internet to go and get MORE books. \u00a0My first MP3 player held about 13 songs and ran on AA batteries. \u00a0My iPad holds thousands of songs, audiobooks, tv shows AND has access to both Amazons library of music AND video AND Netflix … so on and so forth.<\/p>\n
Lets talk about maps. \u00a0How many of you can find your way from your current location, to somewhere you’ve never been, in a different city, using a paper map? \u00a0That’s how my parents used to navigate on family trips, and I have no clue how they did it. \u00a0Well, I know how, and may be able to myself…maybe. \u00a0But my phone knows where I am and can tell me how to get ANYWHERE. \u00a0Most of the time.<\/p>\n
We have video watches<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have honest to goodness cyborgs<\/a>!<\/p>\nWe have machines that can turn human waste into electricity AND drinkable water<\/a>!<\/p>\nSelf-driving cars? On the way<\/a>.<\/p>\nPrivate space flight? Check<\/a>.<\/p>\nWant to do something cool? The average human is your investor now, go and do it<\/a>!<\/p>\n
Lets go ahead and fast forward to now. \u00a0Lets say you have an iPhone. \u00a0It has between 3,200x and 26,200x the memory of my family’s first computer. \u00a0Want a more detailed look of how far computers have come in 30 some years? \u00a0Try this<\/a>. \u00a0Well, that’s comparing the computers of yesteryear, the first personal computers to our modern day smart phones. \u00a0If you’ve got a tablet, you’re holding science fiction technology in the palm of your hand.<\/p>\n Your music collection might still be on CDs, but chances are it isn’t. \u00a0Even if you still buy CD’s you bring it home, pop the disc in your computer once and put that thing in a digital library that probably contains THOUSANDS of songs. \u00a0To listen to any one of them, all you have to do is search, and click play. \u00a0Before I went to college, I thought people were lying to me when they said that they could download and watch whole movies, now its rare that I even bother going to get a physical copy of a movie that I want to own. \u00a0When I went on vacation as a kid, I had to find room to pack two or three extra paperbacks, just to make sure I had enough reading material. \u00a0Now, I have an eReader that currently holds nearly 400 books and it weighs less than a single paperback, takes up less room, and has a built in light, and connects to wireless internet to go and get MORE books. \u00a0My first MP3 player held about 13 songs and ran on AA batteries. \u00a0My iPad holds thousands of songs, audiobooks, tv shows AND has access to both Amazons library of music AND video AND Netflix … so on and so forth.<\/p>\n Lets talk about maps. \u00a0How many of you can find your way from your current location, to somewhere you’ve never been, in a different city, using a paper map? \u00a0That’s how my parents used to navigate on family trips, and I have no clue how they did it. \u00a0Well, I know how, and may be able to myself…maybe. \u00a0But my phone knows where I am and can tell me how to get ANYWHERE. \u00a0Most of the time.<\/p>\n We have video watches<\/a>.<\/p>\n We have honest to goodness cyborgs<\/a>!<\/p>\n We have machines that can turn human waste into electricity AND drinkable water<\/a>!<\/p>\n Self-driving cars? On the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n Private space flight? Check<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want to do something cool? The average human is your investor now, go and do it<\/a>!<\/p>\n