The future, four years ago.

I came across an interesting article while actually searching for something else to write about in the blogg, but this made me change my mind. It's written four years back, in 2002, just when MMS was coming on to the consumers market. It's interresting to see how people thought MMS was going to take over the whole "low-tech" text-messaging system.
It talks about how with this wonderful new technology you could get a hamster or even Kylie Minogue to read out loud your messages instead of having to read them yourself. In one way they were right, you do get funny animations and stuff being sent round, but on the other hand it hasn't taken over txting.
I guess this article also sort of reflects general thoughts about what new technology is going to be used for. Some think it's going to take off, some think it's not. This can also be seen in the commentaries at the bottom of the article, Hegemon says "Of course, this is a great idea.... kind of like a blending of technology.... a melting pot of ideas and a great way to communicate words, text and images. I think the world will embrace the talking rodent phones." And then on the other hand Saul says "(...) I see it being used by companies for marketing, but not extensively by individual users. "
It will be interesting to view this blog in a few years time to see how our thoughts about the new technology were right or not!

Emily