We all remember how movies used to be shown in “3d.” It was usually a boring movie, jazzed up with a bunch of extra lines around the edges to make it look as if it were popping out toward you. There were some high end alternatives in place, but they were more limited in scope because they cost more money to produce (not to mention that they often required trickier camera set ups). And with the regular kinds of 3d movies, you usually went home with a head ache, as you tried to decide whether you wanted to look out your “red vision” eye or your “blue vision” eye. However, the times are changing rapidly. In this day and age, it seems like everything is getting better, faster and easier to access. Forget how easy it is to find out any kind of information you might want (encyclopedias? What are those? Got Google?). And forget how you can now communicate any where on Earth with any person, within a matter of seconds. When it comes to movies, we are living in an age the Jetsons would do a double take looking at. For instance, it was recently announced that the World Cup would be the first major sporting event in world history to be broadcast in a version of 3d where it would seem like you were actually in the stands. Or better yet, on the field itself! What is truly interesting is that, with some of these new technologies, you do not even need to wear those goofy 3d glasses which used to be required for the experience. And in the cases where you do, the glasses are now more like WWI pilot goggles (a lot cooler looking), and they don’t make you see weird colors.