I'm the only one. An overturned CD-ROM, its cargo of video images spilt across three lanes of a data freeway.
Burly info haulers poppin' pills in the middle of the night keep on truckin' at the speed of light.
Extrapolating the familiar present to imagine a radically different future has never worked. By their very nature technological revolutions sever society's links to its immediate past. Instead of extrapolating the present, we can get a better feel for what lies ahead by examining a similar shift that began in the 17th century. Then as now, the plummeting cost of disseminating information created new markets and utterly transformed society. In London in 1649, a fellow named Henry Walker got his hands on an idle printing press and began printing up what we'd recognize as a weekly want-ad sheet.