Since fantasy isn't about technology the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!
Every technology including the printing press comes at some price.
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do yet this is the way technology tends to work.
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
The recent fascination I think reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
Looking down the road space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.
When CD technology first came out it was just so much waste.