There has really been a phenomenal amount of progress in the last couple of decades. Mostly I take the technological advances for granted, I’ve just absorbed them into my life and it’s the way things are. However, occasionally it hits me and I marvel at the changes in the world.

I’m of the generation that when I started with computers, if I wanted to move a file from one computer to another it was via floppy disk. I can hear the screams of people a few years older than me, yelling how lucky I was that tech was available.

Today I’m putting a presentation together that I have to do in class tomorrow. Yesterday I took some high fidelity pictures on my phone and I need to put them in the presentation. As I’ve grown I started with film cameras that had to be developed, then when I did move digital it was a specialised camera and massive, and the photos it produced (I still have them) are grainy and low res compared to todays phone – which does a million other things AND fits in my pocket!

Anyway back to the pictures. I don’t have to find a cable, I don’t have to deal with making the PC and phone talk to each other – it’s all in the cloud and it was stored there automatically. I didn’t have to do anything, I just took the photos, forgot about it, then today I boot up icloud and they are there for me.

A few months back I moved my music collection to the cloud, no more synchronising that takes forever and sometimes fails. I find a song I like on my phone and it’s in my library on the computer and vice versa. No matter where I am, or what device I’m on, I can pick up where I left off.

I don’t know it just super amazes me really what I take for granted so much of the time.