2021

 Anything that anyone thinks is important can be broadcast around the world with nothing more than access to a screen and a keyboard. Almost anyone has the capability of becoming a "celebrity"-look at Justin Bieber. Whether this is good or not-we either end up with people who have more talent than usual or people who have fans that carry talentless people into the already overly untalented pop industry; is debatable. However, the production of music is far from the biggest concern with this changing technology.

In my opinion, the scariest thing about how technology is the rate that technology is developing. It used to take people years to come out with the "latest" technology; people spent years doing nothing but working on something to show the world. Now, however, there are thousands of people whose job is nothing but to sit in front of a computer and write new programs, new software; new products to provide us with. Similarly, the public requires more and more products. Waiting years for the next iPhone is simply preposterous. New iPads, iPods, iPhones; they all come after mere months of their predecessors. 

What doesn't concern me is that people are made to adapt; the only way people even consciously recognize how much their world has changed is when someone asks them to think about it. People will always adapt and change, and people will continue to become more and more technologically capable. That's just how the world works. Not only do people learn quickly to take advantage of new products, but the marketing geniuses of the modern world have thousands of brilliant ways to make us feel like we need this new technology more than anything in the world.
I think the problem with new technology and the world is where they meet. Outside of Silicon Valley, the world operates much differently. When people from the world of technology-where people are constantly changing and evolving and updating things and making them more and more accessible and easy-to-use meet the people of the rest of world, things can get messy. Take WikiLinks for example; and that's only one website.
I don't think technology will ever advance beyond the point of something we can control. Humans are all about control-we need it. What I do think is a problem is the difference between the world of technology and those that create it and everyone else.