Joost takes the stage. The same investment company that backed Hotmail has previously backed skype and now skype is taking the next step in what will eventually become standard household technology. It is doing what TiVo does but in a more efficient fashion of the internet taking advantage of the computers superior capacity to digest information. I see the new Iphone and I scoff softly to myself, thinking this will be obsolete soon, we all know that until you can make phone calls from your laptop computer that phones and mp3 players are just waiting on the extinction line of technology hover over a pit of atari consoles and betaMax players. as they goad on the Home Land line phone telling it to jump, put itself out of it's misery, it's a has been a no good dinosaur living in the land of Thomas Edison.
Gmail, google, their photoshop software of http://picasa.google.com/ all ahead of the game. charging through like a crazed general on the warpath. My parents object to cell phone use, my mother refuses to learn how to type efficiently. I see it as similar to those hold outs who still feel the microwave is too strange and not to be trusted.
Hope, technology, medicine are explaining and defining the world we live in today replacing the need for worship and thanking of vague omniscient inventions of the past.
speaking of the past I can't help but post this site that continues to amaze with it's expanding database.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
pass it on, the internet word of mouth is the street yeller of the 21st century.