What modern technology amazes you?

For me it was the Man from UNCLE series in the sixties, and Illya Kuryakin asking to open channel D and speak to Mr Waverley a continent away on a pen like device. Science fiction at the time, but now possible for any of us with the right tech from our watch.

I agree with you all .....W W W .  Has to be the top , and Goole my  best friend , tells me everything .

now looking to the future , personally I would like a PILL instead of a MENU , I'm a person who cooks because I have to NOT because I want to or likes to 

that's an interesting point Steve. You probably grew up watching the same programmes as myself. The thing is I never doubted that the things I saw would eventually happen. Most of them have or the theory is there. I often wonder if things like that are invented and produced now because people saw them in programmes like that and developed the technology to make it happen? 

I used to watch Wonder Woman!  

We're all still playing catch up to Star Trek 

Star Trek

That's for a different forum ... 

That is a fantastic link there MM!

It's amazing how many of the things in Star Trek have become reality! Interestingly enough there's only a few things still to catch up on, but even some of those are being done, We even have a universal translator on this website - English english to american english if you set it right of course  The money less society is slowly getting there with contactless and with the app to use your phone. Holodecks too with the VR glasses now being sold! 

Beam my caravan to the site direct please, Scientists, make it so.

but you cannae change the laws of physics capt'n .....  

I only found out about the ability to pay by an app the other week. My son went to buy Calpol for his daughter, the chemist didn't accept payment by app, he'd no cash on him ....... good old bank of Mum & Dad 

that's what mums and dads are there for!

On Thursday I was in my local Morrisons when all their systems failed and they couldn't process card payments. Luckily i had cash so sailed through. However on the other tills tey were doing the card payments the old fashioned way - by placing the card in a holder , piece of paper on top an sliding the handle across. (Took me back to my first Access credit card, still see odd shops with that Access sign up) the queues were quite long. 

Guess the staff cashing up the tills at Morrison’s had to work late that night.

For me it’s the sheer speed at which technology has moved during my life time.  [the human brain works in amazing ways to develop such things].  For the OH it’s the microwave, so she can buy chilled meals to heat up when we’re away.