This video of Walter Kronkite touring a home office of a potential 21st century workplace tells us alot about how technology has developed over the years. The video shows Kronkite explaining what were then futuristic devices to print papers, check the weather, and video chat. These devices were just a dream back in the 1960s, but all of those devices have now become reality, and are in fact much smaller and even more high-tech than the ones from the video. This goes to show that if something can be dreamed up, it is possible to create. Technology will continue to advance throughout time, and maybe someday students will look back and laugh about what Brian Williams thought was a dream about the future.
I remember first learning HTML in both high school and college. It seemed to me to be overly confusing and unnecessary. The idea that web users can create their own web pages without needed to know this complicated language is very encouraging. Internet users already can change and manipulate the web in terms of blogs, photo and video sharing, and social networks. Cutting out the complicated language will make the Internet and more friendly place for everyone and can contribute to a greater degree of technological learning as time goes on.
(However, since people can update web language at any time, problems arise, such as negative or offensive comments on blogs and youtube videos. If anyone can write on the web, there is bound to be some abuse.)
