Technology... changed the world

My daughter and I were discussing the fast advancement of technology the other night, and what repercussions it has had on life as we know it.
With the push of a few buttons, and a hand held 'device, or a cell phone as we call them. you can instantly reach someone, talk to them, send a photo, or just text a message.
Or take the Internet and computer combination.  By typing only a few words, on a blank screen that sits inches from your face, on some desk in your house somewhere, you can instantly reach someone across the entire globe.  I can instantly read or type to someone in England, India, Australia...etc.
I think we take this technology a bit for granted as it is so easily accessible and affordable.  My daughter can turn on her laptop, and after a few clicks of the mouse, a program called SKYPE comes on the screen, and instantly she can see her boyfriend that is deployed to Iraq!
Can you just imagine what a historical figure like Paul Revere could have done with this technology?  Instead of riding pell mell like a mad man shouting..."The Redcoats are coming, The Redcoats are coming..." he could have simply sent out a few dozen emails, or had a webinar conference call, and POOF...everyone would have been informed.

Or... Imagine Christopher Columbus texting back to the Queen, I have "discovered" land... I have found "India..."!  "Send reinforcements at once!
On and on my imagination can take me with this line of thought....

What if.... lets say, that in Jesus's time, there was this type of technology.  Can you imagine with me..  The news of his miracles and travels would have reached around the globe in minutes.  He would have been an "instant" celebrity... and people around the globe would have flocked to tune in to the latest Yahoo news or CNN screen to watch him perform healings, raisings from the dead, and yes, even probably his crucifiction on the cross.
Oh, and how crazy would the world have gotten, if someone had "captured" his resurrection on a cell phone camera, and downloaded it to YOU TUBE?

With the advancement of technology, mankind is headed to a zone of no return.
We will never see the 'good ole days of pre-technological advancement ever again, and all the younger generation as well. They only know a life with technology in it....
Where will this all take us?  No one is ever going to give up their cell phones, their satellite TV's, their Internet and video phones.  There is no going back ...
But, what is going forward?   How many more innovations can we as humankind experience.   What is next?

Just some rainy day thoughts off the cuff..... pondering....