Ok, so we're not exactly the Jetsons, but we're getting closer all the time.
New inventions and technological gadgets are being built and distributed every day. I rarely realize how advanced my everyday life is becoming until I look back about 5 years and see how far we've come.
Two years ago my husband got a brand new car. It had all the bells and whistles- it's a hybrid (our first) and has the bluetooth phone, the nav system, and a few fancy car tricks (just thinking how funny this will sound in another five years- ha!). Anyway, we had these cute Sister Missionaries in our ward at the time, one of which was from the Philippines. I had to pick them up one day from one of their meetings and give them a ride home. As my car was "talking" to me they became interested and I showed them some of the features. Then the one sister said in her cute Philipino accent, "Sister! You drive a space ship!" Classic.
I often think about the other things we have at our access without giving it a second thought, or even get irritated if we don't have it. The internet (which we have access to nearly every second), not to mention a laptop- a portable computer of which my husband and I each have our own when I grew up in a house without a computer at all, gps, cell phones, and digital cameras- just to name a few.
My first younger brother went on his mission to Ukraine. By the time he came back after two years, it was amazing how much had changed that was new to him. None of us had iPhones when he left and we ALL had them by the time he came back. My family had also upgraded to Blu-Ray and HDTV. So now my youngest brother is gone and it will be interesting to see what changes in the next two years, although he's in Paris so the modern way of life is not as foreign there.
It may not be the Jetsons or Back to the Future II, but we really do live in the future!
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