Here we are, more than twenty five years later, and while virtually every family has a PC in their home, almost nobody uses it to store recipes or do budgets. In fact, computing, as it is understood in the classical sense, is hardly the function of most computers; instead, the computer has evolved to be a tool for communication, as important as the phone. A variety of communication tools on PCs like email, instant messaging, social network sites like Facebook offer a myriad of ways to communicate.
So, predicting a technology's dissemination on a linear scale, even if it comes to happen, it happens for a totally different reason from the one originally predicted. Also, as the technology permeates society, it joins other technologies and gathers momentum, somewhat like rivulets coming together to become a swift, swollen river.
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