So I'm skimming Planet Broadband, a book put out by Cisco in 2004 that lays out a vision of a tomorrow powered by ubiquitous high-speed Internet, and I had to laugh at one passage near the beginning which details just what our magical broadband future will look like:

When your phone rings, you'll know who's calling because your television set will display their name. When you want to watch the nightly news, you will decide when it starts, and you'll pause it in mid-stream whenever you want. Instead of reading e-mail messages, you'll hear them: It will be just as easy for your friend to send you a recorded voice message as a text message. The framed photograph of your nephews and nieces that hangs on the wall will change as soon as they upload a new image taken earlier that day from their vacation at the beach.