What is your favorite technical innovation and where do you see it going in the future?

Hm, I definitely think it’s the cellphone - more specifically, the smart-phone.  Long distance is now no distance.  As technology gets smaller and more advanced, I think we can learn to live more connected and more efficiently (I love efficient, it’s a like weird fetish…).  We can record and analyze more data, share more ideas.  Plus, my Droid doubles as a GPS so I can go to new places.  I think the more portable our technology becomes, the less we will be bound by it.

Theoretically.

My only fear is that people will become lazy and dependent.  I try not to use my phone-GPS after I’ve been to a place twice - just in case, you know?  But my roommate looks less at her surroundings because she has a GPS.  Why bother to learn anything when you can search it at your fingertips?   (In another story, I think this is kind of how we’re approaching the Singularity…)  The problem is searching content - content has to be created first, and you need people for that. 

I also like electric cars.  But I like trains better.  I love trains.  Like, I’m Sheldon from Big Bang Theory.

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