I got a call from 4BC’s drive time host Chris Adams this afternoon wanting to chat 1980’s tech nostalgia and also wanting to know what 2016’s tech might be.

1980’s was when I began my career and sounding like an absolute dinosaur, the first tech revolution I was involved in was the changeover from telex to fax machine, quickly followed by the personal computer (I’m still not sure if everybody will ever have or need one of these) through to the dot matrix printer.

They all seem so long ago and so inconsequential, but the rise in new horizon tech was significant and the beginning of a revolution that was set to change what it meant to be human and how we worked, lived and played.

What about the mobile phone – from brick to pocket, commodore 64 computers, floppy disks, answering machines, videocassette recorders, tetris, world-wide web, lotus notes, ms dos and Microsoft windows and so many others were all ground breaking in their day and so old hat now.

Looking ahead to 2016 we chatted about the next big things (and more than likely tomorrow’s old hats) of virtual reality headsets, personal robots like jibo, pepper, amazon’s echo, furo and others and the rise of artificial intelligence.

A great blend of where we’ve come from, what we’ve already achieved and what may be ahead.

Have a listen now (8 minutes 6 seconds) and then add to the list of your favourite 1980’s nostalgia and what you hope 2016 may bring you.