Chances are wherever you are in the world reading this the information reached you at just below the speed of sound having travelled thousands of kilometres reaching you quicker than you could blink.

I think you mean the speed of light.

When I was a kid, as a Christmas gift I was given a subscription to Popular Science magazine. Over the years I wonder at the many predictions made in that magazine that have come to fruition. In the fifties they predicted self driving cars. Cell phones and space travel were often the subject of articles. If only society could have advanced as far and as fast as technology. We are moving forward in one area and backward in another.