Beyond 2009: How technology may impact our daily lives (Detroit News)

Twenty-five years ago, making a call away from home meant finding a pay phone. The cell phone was virtually unknown. So was the Internet. Now life would be unthinkable without them. And that’s what makes futurism so intriguing. What will spur the next big thing, the staggering new technology not yet within our grasp? Take something as apparently imperishable as the book. It seems Kindle and …