How much we could achieve

Is a song in Spanish that says: “20 years are nothing”. Lately I have been thinking of how fast time goes, and how we change our approach to live, which somehow has been shape up and determine by technology, especially computers. I just remember the first time I use a computer and how amazing was the fact to run DOS and also play video games, use word processing like Word Star and Word Perfect. Today the world has changed we jump from text file interface to GUI interface, what IBM control is control today by Microsoft, instead of Word Perfect, today we use the well known Microsoft Word, before we as miracle could connect through physical phone modem to another computer, today we have LAN’s, before we have huge PC today we could fit laptops in our book bags, and the list could go on and on.

I make this reference because couple of weeks ago I was discussing with one of my co-workers the future of technology and where we leading to. We made the point and came to the conclusion that if the last 20 years of technology have been amazing like my “friend” Bill Gates said: “In the next 20 we will accomplish 4 times what we did in the last 20 years”. It sound scary, but we analyze and look very careful how well prepare kids are today in terms of technology we can not expect less, I mean in the present we have 12 years old kids that easily could do basic motion in flash. You compare this with my generation we badly used to see computers in movies; it was like another world that we could not reach, and let’s not forget the fact that this coming generation has a whole industry already set, that support any improvements and their new ideas.

After thinking deeply my question still prevail how much we could achieve in this coming 20 years?