For a long time, at various points in history, we wondered where technology would take us—how it would affect the way we live even the simplest parts of our lives, as well as govern how we ran our businesses. Although some of the inventions seen in sci-fi films are still a long way off from becoming reality (such as the hover boards in Back To The Future), many more have gone from writings in books such as 1984 to real life with almost flawless transition.

This is discussed over at the Enigin blog. If you are a fan of the latest gadgets and advances in technology, you may well want to take a look.

Look at email phones for example—not to mention consoles capable of playing games, texting, calling and connecting with people in the farthest reaches of the planet. Even the most basic of modern phones now has at least some kind of GPS function, while the top-of-the-line Blackberry is more than capable in ways that seem to defy common sense and logic: while shopping you can check and answer emails at will for little expense, while a number of other applications allow you to calculate, book films at the cinema and even choose the most suitable wine for a specific meal. It really is something else.

As a result of all this new technology come new degrees which allow students to study it and compare it to that of times gone by. It’s all pretty impressive really, when you consider that ten to fifteen years ago computers were jerky, slow, and difficult to use without bashing your headed repeatedly against a brick wall.