Robin: Ted, the future is scary. But you can't just run back to the past because it's familiar. Yes, it's tempting... Barney: But it's a mistake. - how i met your mother

i love this quote from Robin, because its very true...the future of technology no matter how fascinating, is kind of scary! yes ok so one day i hope to drive in a hover car

and be able to teleport from one place to another, but just thinking about it is scary!

just where will technology take us in the future? today I'm going to give my view and the ideas of others on the future of a few different devices...

The iphone....
well, if we now have a computer in the palm of our hands, whats the next step?
well lets look at our pets micro chip, we have a little computer stored in our animals! a few weeks back i lost my dog, after searching for hours and placing many 'lost dog' signs around my area, within 24hours i had a call from the yarra rangers referring me to the local pound where they had scanned the microchip, received our details, contacted yarra ranges, they notified us and out little puppy was safe and sound.
now image some sort of chip placed inside us as a phone...

...say something like this inserted in our hands...




...think about it??.....











what about the future of screens (i must admit this one is more likely...

imagine that!!! a screen that widens, a mirror computer!! AMAZING!


BUT what i most want to one day see is the invention and use of hovering cars (that hopefully run on water or air so its not so expensive!!) or is it already done??

no seriously can someone tell me if this is real or not...

or this??

you never know...maybe we are closer than it seems!!! especially by the look of these cars!!!

so really, i don't know if there is anything in the future that could happen that someone hasn't thought of, and what once seemed so unrealistic is now...maybe...just around the corner!!! scary or exciting??

Barney: I got so fat, at the end of the day you'd unhook my bra. Robin: You were the only boyfriend I ever motor boated. - how i met your mother.

how unhappy do we have to get with our lives that we give up? what is it about another world, to be whoever we want that excites us so much?? I'm asking because today I'm going to talk about second life.


for those of you who don't know what that is, its basically a new way to chat online through a personally created avatar and travel through different places talking to other people like this...

but the bit that makes me laugh is the words 'and place to be different, to be yourself'?? how is being different being yourself? and just how unhappy with your life do you have to get to start this virtual one?

people have gotten so in to this game they have forgotten their real lives, starting up virtual businesses, relationships and families in this 'fake' world.

this American couple actually met on secondlife, fell in love on secondlife, got married on secondlife and then also got married in 'real life' as well...


second life ends couples first marriage

although this real marriage did end in divorce after she found him 'cheating' on her with his virtual avatar in second life!

but there is also the excitement of travel, you can go anywhere in the world just by sitting on your lounge! now although i find this kind of stupid, i can understand for those who cant get away, who don't have disposable income to travel around the world, but from personal experience of second life, its nothing like the real thing...

...yes that right, you heard me, i started up a second life, but let me just say it was from curiosity (and i didn't like it at all) although whilst playing it in one of my classes, it was amusing going up to random people and dancing on them, exploring scary dungeons and all round scaring my teacher that i will be mentally hurt if i get bashed in the virtual game, its defiantly fun for a giggle :) (sorry Cathy) but i don't think i could get addicted and forget about my actual life!

don't people have friends or family in their real life that they are leaving behind? or is that why they are starting the game? but isn't it a game? well apparently its not to them, its their life....

this is what i don't understand, ok yes i have had my short obsession with creating my life on The Sims - a virtual PlayStation game that allows you to create characters and play as if you were them, but the point of it is that its just a game, and your playing the characters, there is no online resource allowing others to join, its literally you playing by yourself (may i add this obsession only lasted a week whilst a short stint of unemployment). so where do you draw the line? when do we have to realise that there is no way to forget our real life and replace it with a virtual one?