That's what we're doing now, if you were wondering (check out our flying cars and silver pants)

My current favourite bit about this world of tomorrow is that I don't need to get off my arse to shout at my son, I can just log into steam and tell him to shut his fucking pie hole remotely.

edit: I've always twice caught him doing things he shouldn't via facebook, because his friends are DUMB.

My last 'woah the future' moment was realising how ubiquitous internet/news access was when I was sitting in the train to Hong Kong reading the news on wifi access and almost taking it for granted. Now with tablets taking off we are so close to the sci-fi electronic newspapers you might see in movies. Yay, future!

Steam and Facebook, giving the masses a taste of totalitarian power since 2008.

Another totalitarian bastard parenting tip (I've got loads of these): grounding your kids isn't really much of a punishment these days - confining them to their room just means putting them in with all their coolest toys and an internet connection to all their friends.

e-grounding on the other hand, really makes them cry.

(depends how nerdy your kid is, really - but then again I'm posting on here, so I'm hedging my bets)

I like that I can literally move to the other side of the world in just one day, and with no real effort, communicate in real time with everyone I know back home (or anywhere else). Even face to face if I wanted to. The only real limitations are timezones and peoples' need to sleep.

MP3 players. To think used to carry around a Discman in my rucksack (it had a little compartment for it and everything, plus little CD holder sleeves in a side pocket, nobody would design a rucksack like that any more!). Now I can have all my music in my pocket with a device that can also connect to the internet. Brilliant! That said I have gone all retro and bought myself a record player so I clearly like to live in the past too.

Still not impressed with the lack of flying cars/jetpacks/moon bases/affordable space tourism/robot servants and so on.

Last week whilst waiting for the train home from work I decided I wanted to listen to a particular album which I didn't have on my phone. By the time the train arrived a few minutes later, I had downloaded and was listening to that album.

Mind, I still think that mobile phones in general are pretty amazing. I mean, you can stand in the middle of a field and talk to someone on the other side of the planet. There's a whole planet in the way! It's crazy!

...Walkman

On the one hand: ebooks and emagazines! No more paper waste and no more loss of precious space!

On the other hand: this be killin' print ad revenue which helps my industry!

On the third hand: sucks for print-based designers as I'm doing the web app UI's for ebook devices!

Dracion.

I have my own sports car and can go anywhere I want.

Ah, the future. It is still much dumber than I had hoped. Every so often I do something futuristic and it occurs to me how insane it is in comparison to when I was a lad. Watching videos off the intertubes on my cell phone or deciding I want to research something and not having to drive to a library and pull out 15 books and dig through them for relevant information.

The future is great! But still, kind of dumb.

The Discman was awesome because you had to keep it perfectly straight at all times or it wouldn't play properly.

Also it was twice the size of its predecessor, which is always a good move when you're designing the technology of the future

(Apple, pay attention here with your fucking gargantuan iPhones)

Having your dad shoot your laptop on youtube.

I went Walkman -> Discman -> iPod Nano -> Android phone, which is a bit of a roller coaster of sizings.



Agreed. What I liked about the iPhone 4S is that it didn't follow the 4in+ direction of other handset makers. 3.7in is the right screen size for my hands. My Nexus One is that size and it's good.

If Apple is going to make a smaller iPad and release it in two weeks, I expect a smaller iPhone to be on offer as well. Then Samsung will make an infringing Android copy which I can go get.