When I was abroad I was walking in a shopping centre and there sitting on a bench was this man talking and gesticulating, then he would stop for a bit, look around, and then start talking away quite loudly and forcibly. At that point I noticed a small wire protruding from his ear and realized that, of course, he was on his mobile phone. It was only a couple of years ago that if you saw someone behaving like that, it would not have been long before the men in the white coats would have appeared and taken him away. This got me thinking to how much our everyday life has changed and that people who died 50 years ago would have difficulty in recognizing the country, the language and the lifestyle of the people where they used to live. It makes you wonder what the next 50 years has in store for those around to see it. Will we be wearing special glasses or watches so that we can watch television or see the other person that we are talking to on the phone? Who would have imagined that in the year 2008 you would see every Tom, Dick Harry, Mum, Pop, Grandma and Granddad, clutching and sipping their bottles of water! Where on earth did this habit spring from?!! In fact I think it came from aerobic classes and seeing Californians running around Muscle beach in the movies clutching a bottle of water and now suddenly everyone is going about their daily business with a bottle in hand. How did our parents survive? I wonder what the next must have item we will all have to carry and consume on a regular basis? Maybe we will all have to carry bananas around with us to munch through on a regular basis, thereby reverting back to our primate roots! Your guess is as good as mine, probably better.

Have a good week,

Yours, Juan.