What is going to be wonderful is immediate, digital content. No need for text books in school, and the billions of pieces of paper (maybe trillions?) wasted every year. That's a lot of trees. Everything will be available electronically. Everything will be on the Internet. Everything. And it will all be much better organized because of it. Just like search engines now, we'll be able to search through all of our collective knowledge. For example, knowledge of history. I can go on Napster and try to find historical audio such as famous speeches, but it's hard. Universities are going to catalog all of their information, as will the government (what they'll allow). Everything will be available to anyone, anywhere! I must sound like a nerd with a hard-on, but it's going to really help us. Everything will be faster and easier and save us loads of time and energy. Our butts may expand, but this is the start of evolving beyond the need for rear ends. Not really, but you get what I mean. Reading takes time, we'll probably find a way through further technology to increase information intake, not just make it more easily accessible. The Internet isn't just for porn and mindless chatting. And horrible, worthless Web sites created by thirty million teenagers all telling the world that it sucks.

Of course there will be a down side to this. Jobs will shift and the economy will change, but it's going to be a gradual change, so not too bad. One of the main problems may turn out to be that we're all so excited about what we're now able to do, that we don't take the time to think about bad things that may arise and not prepare. I don't know. I don't know much about this stuff. These are just guesses of a curious onlooker. You may ignore.