“Most of us have heard the saying, “That’s the best thing since sliced bread!” What do you think is actually the best thing since sliced bread?”

The best thing would have to be something that had universal appeal and enabled the most good for the most number of people. It would definitely be in the realm of technology and I think the only real option is wireless information technology. It comes in many different flavors like 3G and LTE. There is a joke which actually led me to think about this particular PAD topic and that is, in the early 21st Century we have technology that puts the entirety of human knowledge at our fingertips but we just use it to take pictures of cats.

That first part of the joke is what I think is the valid part for “best thing since sliced bread” – that you could search the breadth and depth of human knowledge anywhere you are anytime you want for anything at all. That could, if we took it seriously, exponentially accelerate our intellectual development. Perhaps the pictures of cats just keep us modest and rationally constrained. Yeah, that’s it.