2010 Odyssey spaced

It's Twenty-Ten...Twenty-freaking-Ten...holy shit. The future is NOW. It may not be the cool future we all imagined when we were kids, but in a lot of ways it's not far off. Just think about the leap in technology over the last 10 years, we might get all those cool things we saw in Back To The Future 2 by 2025 after all. Although I think the things we will see will be more Star Trekish than that, more personal and portable computing power, and the growth of cloud computing. We are likely to see the death of the analog telecommunications systems. Wireless power transfer will become a standard. And wired connections will start to become a novelty or only used in specialized circumstances. It's going to slowly become weird when someone or something is not "connected to the matrix". There is going to be a point in time very soon when we will be able to get the status of every appliance and environmental conditions of our homes from not just one but any location. This is something I look forward to. Imagine logging into your home network from a remote location, turning your AC on, preheating your oven, checking the contents of your fridge and pantry, ordering grocery's from the store for pickup, setting your DVR to record that show you heard about at lunch, and checking to see if your kids are home while telling them you are just leaving the office and will be home soon. Yes the future looks cool, so I think I can live without the hover board for now.