if you've been around for a while like me, you probably had ideas when you were young about the year 2000 and the 21st century. this is on my mind today for 2 reasons: last night my husband and I were laughing about all the predictions we heard for the year 2000 when we were kids. they mostly revolved around moving sidewalks and kitchen appliances with minds of their own. we would all ride around in hover cars several yards or higher above the ground. we would vacation on the moon. what we marveled at, last night, was what we never heard or imagined - that we would be able to communicate, in real time, in our own homes, with people all over the world.
the 2nd reason this is on my mind is that at church today, we were talking about how we might possibly view this current war, and this current administration, if newspapers, tv and radio were still our only source of information. we were appreciating the fact that so much more information is readily available beyond the propaganda, thanks to the internet.
so to me, major avenues of communication are the amazing thing so far about this century - so much better and more interesting than moving sidewalks.
I wondered what y'all expected in this new century, and what you think of what we got instead.