Broken Promises of the Future

[Name]

We've come close, I suppose, with the palm pilot, taser, and cell phone, but they don't look as nifty, nor make the same cool sounds.

You've not hear the people talking on the Nextel Walkie Talkies?

But now that i think about it, I don't remember really expecting anything outrageous by this time. Looking around though, I see many places that we have stepped backwards and revisted technologies of the past, for example, watched some PBS show where there are folks making full blown houses out of bales of hay. Almost nostalgic to the pyramid days, except those were mud and straw mixture. But I don't remember ever having a thought that I would have such a powerful computer sitting next to me in my own home, or that I would be able to walk around anywhere and be reachable by phone at anytime(almost).

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by Name

You've not hear the people talking on the Nextel Walkie Talkies?

Sure. Used to have one, in fact. I was including that type of device in the cell phone catagory but the more I think about it, the Nextel two-way radios are probably closer to the communicator than a cell phone.