While oil prices go up and don't seam to be coming down anytime soon, the bright light for our economic growth it's in technology. This is nothing new, we have all heard this before but are we truly aware of it? Are we caught up in our daily routine, our worries and fears, that we fail to see the opportunity that most of us have at the tip of our fingers? Is the world changing too fast for us to see? Or do we think the technology is distant and locked up in labs handle only by scientists? Changes offer great opportunities for those who pay attention. It is time for us to be fully aware of these rapid and almost silent changes. Look around you, appreciate all the things that are possible because of technology and imagine the future possibilities. Look at the internet, do you see the opportunities, it's growth? Do think it has reached it's potential? What do think it's future will be? I say it is only the beginning, in the future I see the net will be the main way of communication and doing business. Why? because it is cost effective, saving time and energy while providing a wide range of options and information. Because it allows the most democratic, diverse and global communication in history. Because it gets easier and more fun to use as time goes by. Because in a lot of ways the net makes us more human fulfilling our longing to share a thought, a feeling, a story, a joke, a tip, with the rest of the world.