Past, Present, and maybe Future?

It is pretty surreal to think how far technology has come. We as people have always had fantasies as to what new technologies would be available in one to two decades. Some people have even written science fiction novels set in the future with inventions that have, so many years later, been made into reality. Some recent inventions have dramatically changed the way we live our daily lives and will only magnify as the years go on. Most of the pieces I am talking about are more or less, cause and affect circumstances.

One example of a cause and affect we are currently experiencing (and will for many years to come) is the social networking. We of course know now days thanks to networks such as MySpace, and Facebook, that we have been able to connect with our peers post high school. This is something we take for granted; our parents or even grandparents never had the luxury of having this much access to information on the people we know. We have a more personalized view of the people we know regardless if said person knows this or not (You know that whole Facebook creeping thing?).

This phenomenon with relationships will continue to evolve into things we cannot possibly imagine at this point in time. I personally think we don’t realize the significant importance(And Danger) of social networking.

The internet is simply not going anywhere. The last fifteen years of website development, picture uploads, and even what we say on an internet forum are being recorded and kept in a private archive designed to keep the history of the internet. Our great great grandchildren will one day be able to look onto our then aged facebooks or archives of past community websites that we may have been members of. It is a safe assumption that our future generations will be able to know who we were and how we were like, while we will never know them. Which may or may not hurt your lasting image that you will be remembered by.

But the question is, what other future effects are we not thinking about?