can you believe it is 2005?

wow. the world is flying by. im 20 now. 20!! crazy. i was looking at my AWESOME white stripes CD and it was copy right 2005. and that got me to thinking. wow, 2005. Y2K, 5 years ago. anyone else seem like it yesterday. Sept 11 (the attack one), 2001, FOUR YEARS AGO. crazy. what else, anyone rememeber donovin baliley's amazying record breaking 100m dash in the Summer Olympics in Athens? when was that? 1996. 9 years ago. 1996, the year Mission: Impossible came out (and also Mystery Science Theater 3000). only 5 years until 2010. seems like nothing. so that is my reminecing about the past, now we look to the future.
So a while ago i was driving past the shaw building (side note: this in itself is a good story, it looks so funny because there are like 50 cars parked on both sides of the street and they all have a pylon sitting beside them, it is super funny) and i noticed the shaw digital phone signs. this got me to thinking, coming soon is the day that phone lines will be obsolete. It was not 15 years ago that i was on a party line. no phone lines? wierd. but dont worry phones will still be around. they will just come through your cable/internet line, satalite or radio waves. that is right, mobile of modem. Also a coworker figured they should have one card that does everything, your drivers licence, bank card, credit card, safeway club card, student id, hotel key card, etc. personally i dont think that is that far off (if it isnt already here). the world is progressing to "faster" "more convinient" "better" "quicker". why just today i was pondering that bug spray now all comes in arosal cans, they used to often come in pump spray cans. Someone else I know was commenting that computers were supposed to make everything easier and quicker. they really havnt been doing that. sure to some extent they have, but not to the predicted extent. So i ask you this:

Are we really progressing?

Ian