People actually adapt very quickly to change, especially change for the better. In the late 1980s, when the internet was still mainly limited to universities and governments, I predicted that a vast worldwide network for communication and information sharing would eventually be available to everyone, even schoolchildren, by the late 1990s.[163] I also predicted the advent of mobile devices that people would use to harness this network by the early twenty-first century.[164] Such predictions seemed daunting and disruptive (not to mention unlikely) when I made them, but they actually came true,
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