I would hope that ten or twenty years from now we live in a world in which Internet access is taken almost for granted, and that it’s conceivable that the Internet—the name “Internet”—will actually fade and we’ll just consider it part of the infrastructure that we’re used to just like you know, there’ll be a plug in the wall for information services over the Internet.
The Conversation #51 — Phyllis Tickle
presented by Aengus Anderson, Micah Saul, Phyllis Tickle
Historians get really nervous about patterns. That's changing a bit now. And the truth of it is there's not much way to avoid the 500-year cycle. You almost have to work too hard to unsay it, it's so obviously there in every way. And if you say every 500 years we go through one, then you immediately say we're in the 21st century and baby are we going through one. Read more →