This is incredible. It really is.
If someone had said to me in 1992, when I was but a stoned 21 yr old, that in some hypothetical future I could find myself laying in bed, 1 o'clock in the morning, typing my journal using MicrosoftWord on a computer and/or camera and/or phone and/or music player unit thingymajig... a thingymajig more powerful than anything available at the time and no bigger than an audio cassette... a hand held machine that could instantly publish my words, my drawings and my photos to a world wide space or connect to a vast network of computers that spanned the globe, that theoretically could retrieve any information on just about any subject anywhere... in a world where 1 in 2 people have the same...At best i'd have assumed they were talking of an old and grey future of mine way downstream. At worst my younger, slightly too obnoxious self would've thought them a wee bit fantastical and a deluded Star Trek Geek.
But here I am fifteen short years later, right in the middle of my very own "the future is now!" moment. The very object in my hands, my thumbs tapping out the text on a qwerty keyboard the size of a book of matches...actually smaller.

The reality is, of course, that through all the wonder and genius of this small and perfectly formed thingymajig toy, a toy I would have struggled to believe in only a decade and a half ago, the information available wirelessly on the internet is, let's be honest, mostly pornography, price comparison sites, wikipedia and various sci-fi things. None of which I can view, read or enjoy at this moment because, for reasons I can't begin to understand, the thingymajig won't connect to anything. Hurumph.

The future is now, it looks brilliant and it don't work.

Although by the time you read this...it`ll have worked again obviously.