When I was young, we only had 3 channels!

I read two separate articles the other day.

 

The first was about some new kind of battery technology, that if successful will create batteries that, though just the size of a penny, could provide energy to power a device for 10 years. Without being recharged. Imagine the possibilities? Cars could be clean and need no gas, laptops could be used in the third world, and my phone won't need to be plugged in every night.

 

The second was about some mad scientist bloke who is developing a procedure that can slow the functions of the body to a basic crawl, allowing the critically ill to get medical care before it's too late. It's as if they are put into a suspended state. All very cool.

All of this is very exciting. Of course, I wasn't born in the dark ages but the level of advancement over the past few years has been quite astonishing.

Which led me to ponder… what will this earth be like when our son is our age?

What will the life expectancy be? What will transport be like? Television? We had a colour TV, but only with 3 channels and no remote control or method of recording. We had one computer at school, but it was very basic by today's standards and each child had about an hour a month on it. Alise and I, between us, have (I think) seven things that can get onto the internet. Will this be considered laughable in the future?

 

It's exciting to think of being a parent, but almost more exciting to think of the advances that will occur during his lifetime.