The new technological developments are already available and powerful, becoming user friendlier and less expensive. Many of the most advanced devices, costing tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, do not have such a powerful processing speed nor storage capacity. The PC software is so advanced due to mass production and fierce competition. The competitors' products are equally good. For unusually good state and prospect of economy we should not be giving credit to politicians, but to the rapid development of new technologies.
Professional softwares are equally sophisticated and inexpensive.
Everything is qualitatively different from what we used to know in the recent past. That means that most of the people have easy, fast and convenient access to synchronous and asynchronous communications and each other's resources, which are growing fast in quantity but also in quality. The conclusion should be self-evident. After attending last summer the Illinois Faculty Summer Institute at UIUC and ASEE 's National Engineering Education Conference , I realized that many are lagging behind the leading institutions in this area. That motivated me to be increasingly involved with versatile potentials of new technologies in the classroom.