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Clever Rolling Stones.  "Time Is On My Side," they said. You get the feeling that it must be true -- that the longer you wait, the cooler things get, technologically -- when you see pieces like this one from Network World, scanning backward to things that happened 25 years ago.  The magazine calls them "2010's 25 Geekiest 25^th Anniversaries," but for some of us, it's a walk down Memory Lane.

In 1985 Nintendo debuts.  Windows 1.0 hits the chips.  AOL is born.  The first Blockbuster video store opens.  The first "dot com" addresses are dispensed.

Are you kidding?  In some ways, 1985 and these events seem like ancient history.  In some ways, they seem like yesterday.  Some of them are so passé that that they rate a giggle.  Some of them live on.

It's by filling in all that's happened since 1985 -- and that continues to happen at a breakneck pace -- that you get some perspective on progress.  Look at the Consumer Electronics Show.  Just one year ago, 3D TV and OLED screens were nascent dreams, and this year, they covered the show floor!

PS3 and Wii.  Windows 7.  Facebook.  Blu-ray.  IPv6 (the new addressing system for the Internet being worked in because they're running out of IP addresses).  It's amazing.

What will they be talking about 25 years from now?  How quaint will 7.1 surround sound or 1080p HD appear?  Chances are, fiber optics along with leveraged wireless radio signals will be preferred delivery media, with fiber playing a dual heroic role because even today, it also carries wireless signals on the land-based segment of their linkages.

But what do you think we'll see in 25 years?  Holographic home entertainment?  Mind-controlled entertainment systems?  Chips implanted in our bodies for easier machine interplay?

Send us your ideas.  Maybe someone will cross-check them for us in 2035.

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The good old times.