For some the next few paragraphs  will bring relief and happiness for I feel the time has come to wrap up the technology theme and move onto pastures new.

Its been really great to touch on the many impacts that innovation has played in our lives and gradually things have changed beyond the average imagination.

One example of this was when I watched the recent offering of “Goodnight Sweetheart” (staring Nicholas “Rodney you plonker”Lyndhurst). It showed him coming from 1962 London to 2016 London via a time-travelling hole in the time system fabric or something like that.

Imagine it!! You come straight from a time of dull colours, straight-laced haircuts, clothes and architecture of browns and greys, with gramophones, wired phones and basic media to today where old tenements and shops are clean parades of internet cafes, smart phones in everyone’s hand, bright clothing and things that talk to you.Haircuts are individual and wierd. Cars are sleek and rounded with more technology and gadgets than one could imagine. Watches that can receive texts and one can talk into. Tiny headphones that would just look like strange ear plugs and mobile phone shops.Phone boxes have been converted into cash machines (they are new too)  or baristas. And that’s just what to experience in the first few minutes of landing in this year.

We take all this for granted because the changes have been small, subtle and gradual. We would also find it extremely difficult to go back not just for convenience sake but economically and socially as computers and gadgets have taken the place of needing so many of the shops, workers, spaces and time.

If one had the money and the inclination and the ability to create their own home it could be truly amazing.

Automated gates and video cameras to alert and help visitors and the owners to the front door. Robots to cut the grass and a watering system worked out and implemented by the home computer. Cars that park themselves (which have also driven you driverlessly)  into the luxury heated garages. All this before you even get through the bluetooth door lock and alarm system. Already on is the heating or air conditioning along with the lights, kettle, oven and hot water all controlled by your smartphone and the window you like opening in the bedroom when you go upstairs is gliding into the open position via the Ap.

The carpets and windows are spotless thanks to the clever robots employed to take care of those niggly chores and as one uses milk and other comestibles you are safe in the knowledge that a message has been sent to the supermarket to deliver the next shopping order right to your home.

As one walks round the house, doors open on approach and lights magically turn on and off. The media system brings up TV programmes or music choices at the command of your voice and when bored with that then the computer or tablet can connect one via a video call  to a friend half way round the world. One can also plug into the game console to play whatever the latest viral game is taking over the world of gamers.

So off upstairs to remove the self-tying shoes and stab-proof fabric clothing, set the shower via another phone Ap and undress to wash under the massaging water.

Then its offto the vitual indoor gym where a bicycle is set up so simmulate the ride out on the road or cross country route that is desired and the same goes for the running treadmill, the rowing machine and climbing wall. Fitness has never been so safe or technical.

So gadgets really are all around us and are gradually integrating into our lives without us realising so much.

The one or two  major challenges for ALL technology is battery size and ability to hold a charge and data memory and size.

Most mobile gadgets like the phone, watch, tablet, laptop, car, robotic mower/vacuum, radio or say, defibrillator rely on a battery and these are restricted to size and the ability to hold charge and give lengthy use is very limited but breakthroughs are on the horizon (yippeee). Data memory and size is also another bugbear as more power is needed to run the complicated programs and greater storage is required to save photos, videos, music, written documents and lists of things. Again there are backup systems being looked into or available now to ease this.

But CRACK these two issues and our technology and gadgets could see no bounds.

As for automated everything such as cars, work, humanoid robots and flight well lets just wait and see.

I have been around for fifty years this September 20th 2016 and have certainly seen a massive change in the way we live and interact. Some brilliant ((how did we manage before?) and some downright absurd ( how can we manage with that?). Whatever the scenario it has all changed and only one’s  imagination and patience will tell what the next fifty years will bring but make a note of what you see now and compare it to then; in the future.

You may just be amazed!!