Not since the Industrial Revolution has the United States, as well as the majority of the civilized world, undergone the kind of change that is occurring now in the midst of a �technology revolution.� And perhaps no other technology has experienced the drastic changes that have taken place in the last 10 years as communication technology.

Innovation after innovation have burst upon the communication technology scene at the rate of hundreds, if not thousands, of new products or upgrades of existing ones have put society on the fast track to the 21st century.

From cellular telephony that was once the exception but today is the norm to interactive television to tiny microchips that help us get from one place to another, advances in communication technology have come at such a rapid pace that bystanders may be left behind in the next millennium.

Because there are so many innovations in communication technology, and still more every day, it would be impossible to report on everything. By the time the research and the report were finished it is quite possible, if not probable, that some of the technologies would already be obsolete. That is how fast our world is changing.

For this reason, this report will attempt to take a look at the latest in communication technology from a �Sharper Image what�s cool� approach.