Recently I was at a wedding reception, and someone at our table had some inane question along the lines of “who was that band had that one song with the lyrics, ‘dances in the sand?’”  No fewer than four people pulled out their various smartphones, iPhones, or Blackberrys and began searching for the answer as fast as their 3G connection would allow.

And then it hit me: when did the future get here?

We have technology that people could only dream of in Star Trek, with their little tricorders (what three things it record, anyway?) and their little communicators.  We’re a transporter More >