The new sea dragon software, which Microsoft is producing, looks like one of those new paradigm busters set to change the way we do things within the next decade or so. Take a look at this video:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/637132/this_technology_will_blow_your_mind

and then go to Microsoft Live Labs http://labs.live.com/Seadragon.aspx and download the Sea Dragon Photosynth module to try the preview. Simply amazing if you have ten minutes or so. 

Yes, technology helps us do more and more amazing things, but then STOP! Are our minds getting calmer or busier as the decades roll by?  As Master Nan many times said, mental illness will dwarf cancer as the plague of this century. Perhaps because of the ever declining nutritional content of our food and ingestion of chemicals we cannot detoxify that build up in our systems. Perhaps due to exposure to too much electromagnetic pollution, which is growing by leaps and bounds and definitely affecting the functioning of our cells. Perhaps due to too much stress or too much mental enervation as promoted by TV and other media. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps …. who knows at this juncture. The big point is, you can see the growing need for people to learn mental calmness, quiet and meditation.