| I often find myself thinking about the
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| | an Atari way back when, but I never would
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| ways in which my everyday life has changed
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| | have imagined that Pong would evolve into
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| over the past twenty years. Usually, I
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| | a myriad of video games that my family
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| take a step back and wonder how my mother
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| | could play on the PlayStation, Xbox, and
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| - who passed away seventeen years ago -
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| | GameCube. Yes, I had a VCR, but I never
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| would view today's world. Aside from the
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| | would have conceived that the VCR would
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| geopolitical changes that have taken place
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| | make room for the DVD player, and that my
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| in the past twenty years, and the ways in
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| | TV screen would grow to such large
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| which the landscape of our city has
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| | proportions. Nor could I have imagined
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| changed with explosive growth and
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| | that my TV would host such a myriad of
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| development, there are the wondrous
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| | systems: PlayStation, Xbox, DVD player,
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| developments in electronics that have
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| | and DVR recorder.
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| changed the ways we do business and the
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| | And then, of course, there's the digital
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| ways we spend our leisure time.
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| | revolution in cameras. Not only can I take
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| Twenty years ago, I started using my first
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| | photos and share them via the Internet,
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| PC at work. I recall having to put in a
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| | but I can also run slide shows on that
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| floppy disk every time I wanted to do any
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| | same TV. I can take my digital camcorder,
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| word processing. It would be another six
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| | burn home movies onto discs and send them
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| years before a friend told me about what
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| | to relatives half a world away.
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| he thought would be the next big thing -
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| | What's even more amazing to me is that
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| something called the World Wide Web.
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| | virtually all of the electronics consumer
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| Today, of course, it's crippling when my
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| | goods that I own have been given to me as
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| DSL goes on the blink; my work grinds to a
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| | gifts. I've been fortunate enough to enjoy
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| halt and I marvel at just how dependent I
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| | the bounty of an electronics revolution
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| am on the Internet.
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| | that I couldn't have imagined twenty years
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| I look around my house and see all kinds
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| | ago. Which, of course, leads me to wonder
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| of electronics that I couldn't have
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| | what the next twenty years might bring in
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| dreamed of twenty years ago. Sure, I had
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| | the wondrous world of electronics.
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