The Future Coming Fast

I chose to focus on 2009 for this blog. I read most of the other readings, but this is the one that I feel that I can talk about the best. Perhaps this is because not only is 2009 just a couple of years away, but we are started to see some of the technology described in 2009. We have computers in watches, picture frames and even rings even though they are watch-rings. I find it fascinating what is being done with digital technology. The section of Communication for instance. While we cannot see the other person as of yet as a 3-D image, and I doubt that we will in the next couple of years, there is technology used now that has the potential of heading that way. I'm not talking about video conferencing or web chat, interesting though they might be, I am speaking more specifically about the hearing impaired. Not only can they now text message via cell phones, but the phone service called Voice Relay, which uses a third party that acts as a phone line between you and the other person has changed. The person who can hear still has to pretend that the person who is speaking is not really there, but the hearing impaired person instead of the old text box on their end, they now have boxes that have graphical capabilities. When you laugh and the operator types that in along with your response, your response shows up as text along side an image of a laughing face. It really is neat, but unfortunately costly.