This is there just to remind us how boring our generation is. We used to actually tried to convince people to send mail by shooting it in rockets, send a man to the moon in a glorified can and fly around the world in zeppelins. Compared to that, a slightly bigger portable television with 3 cameras instead of 1 is just ... boring.
I entirely disagree. I spent yesterday utterly flabbergasted after watching this Spot video [0] and thinking of the implications of this becoming available to consumers soon.
It's a bit of a tired adage, but that portable television sends mail faster than any rocket, can simulate sending many men to many moons (and could replace all the computing apparatuses used to send the first men to the moon), and... well, you've got me beat on zeppelins as there's nothing we have now to trump that :) I guess my point is that maybe there is still a healthy demand for perspective in the boring future.
