A new decade is upon us, and we are marking the date in our Blackberry, iPod, or Google Phone. These gadgets hardly seem strange anymore, but think back ten years and try to remember using a paper date book to realize how far we have come in the realm of technology.
CRI Reporter Andrea Hunt has the story.
Simple technology we use today would have been perceived in 2000 as something out of the futuristic Jetsons or Inspector Gadget cartoons.
Consider the subway - it is now completely normal for people to send emails or international SMSs from their phones or for grown men to play video games on hand held PSPs on their way to work.
Let's see what innovations have been most life-changing in the last ten years.(www.hXen.com)
Here's an obvious one - email! Back in 2000, having your own Hotmail or Yahoo email address meant you were ahead of the game. These days, people have 2 or even 3 email addresses as well as multiple chat accounts.
Next up is the ever-popular iPod, the MP3 player that literally creates a constant, portable soundtrack to your life and is widely characterized as the absolute best invention people never knew they needed.
