Seth's Blog : Living in the future

In a bad 1950s science fiction movie, you might see flying jetpacks, invisibility cloaks and ray guns. What we got instead is a device that fits in our pocket. It allows us to connect to more than a billion people. It knows where we are and where we're ... # [View Online](17225009/150530305/aea277bc0f2fd920e85517e24c5444e0) --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Living in the future]( In a bad 1950s science fiction movie, you might see flying jetpacks, invisibility cloaks and ray guns. What we got instead is a device that fits in our pocket. It allows us to connect to more than a billion people. It knows where we are and where we’re going. It has all of our contacts, the sum total of all published knowledge, an artificially intelligent computer that can understand and speak in our language, one of the best cameras ever developed, a video camera with editor, a universal translator and a system that can measure our heart rate. We can look up real time pricing and inventory data, listen to trained actors read us audiobooks and identify any song, any plant or any bird. We can see the reviews from our community of nearby restaurants or even the reputation of a doctor or lawyer. It can track the location of our loved ones and call us a chauffeured vehicle at the touch of a button. And of course, we use it to have arguments. And to watch very short stupid videos. [Add to Any]( [Digg This]( [Add to FaceBook]( [Add to LinkedIn]( [Pin it!]() [Post to X.com]( [Subscribe by email]( [Subscribe by RSS](  • [Email to a friend]( in the future;17225009) • You're getting this note because you subscribed to Seth Godin's blog. Don't want to get this email anymore? Click the link below to unsubscribe. [Safely Unsubscribe]( • [Archives](subscriberid=150530305&validate=6d3c0645f60c73f7130adcdf8dd69e3b&portal=1081591) • [Preferences]( • [Contact]( • [Subscribe]( • [Privacy]( Email subscriptions powered by [FeedBlitz®]() • [930 Sylvan Ave, Suite 110 • Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632](