It struck me today to think how much we use technology now. My history class now has a Smartboard, and a set of 40 netbooks. I also figured out that about a year or two after I've graduated, my school will likely have at least one good computer for every person there. Which isn't saying a whole lot, since in a few years, there'll be only 200 or so people, but still.
And as everything gets cheaper, it's gonna get even easier to put computers everywhere. Even now, you can see the effect of the lowering prices of computers. When I bought the laptop I have now back in November 2008, it cost $800, including the extended warranty. It came with 3GB of RAM, a 2GHz dual-core processor, and a cheap-a** Intel graphics card (which I absolutely hate). Now, a year and a half later, it seems you can get a hell of a lot more for $800.
Makes a person want to believe the stuff Ray Kurzweil (<- Really, Google Chrome? You think I wanted to say "unwieldy"?) says.
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