Years ago, I remember celebrating because I had successfully completed one of the ‘things I want to be able to do in the future’.

Without using a computer, i successfully found a product online, purchased it and picked it up. No ‘traditional’ online use required. The mobile world was looking more and more like a possibility.

The most astounding thing about this, is that this was only 2006. 5 years ago…

Interestingly this was the same year Sarah and I challenged each other to do all of our Christmas shopping online only (we failed, grandparent presents did not exist online in 2006).

Five years on, I’d like to provide a comparison. Christmas this year I broke my 3year old nieces spinning top. 5 minutes later without leaving the couch, on only my smartphone I had found an identical one, ordered it, paid for it on my credit card, and then paid my credit card balance off. Most interestingly I didn’t for a second think of this as any sort of challenge.

It’s made me think, the world is changing fast these days, we all know that. However when it comes down to it I think Humans are adapting so fast to the change that we generally underestimate how fast the change is happening.

Think about this for a second. There are no camera phone photos or videos of the 9/11 attacks, because camera phones didn’t exist yet.

If we are underestimating how fast things have changed, are we also setting our expectations of how fast things will move in the next 5 years?

This is the ‘partially related’ video which sparked this realisation.