THE STREET JIVE

It amazes me how far the technology of communication has come in the last few years.

These days, you can't walk down a busy street without seeing at least one person talking on their mobile phone. And yet, barely ten years ago we mostly seemed to manage without them.

Go back another ten years, and even the cordless home phone was a wild bit of future tech that you'd only seen on news reports and oddball science shows.

What really brings this home is when you hear Marvin Gaye singing "I Heard it Through the Grapevine." That was 1967. Yes, less than 40 years ago, people were getting daily information through the branches of a plant, people. You couldn't make too much wine in case it affected reception. This is the primitive world these people were living in.

Who says this isn't the 21st century? Do you know who? Confused time travellers, that's who.


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