Ten years ago, applications were reserved for colleges or jobs.

We had never heard of cloud computing, and smartphones had not been introduced. Companies did not have social media managers to manage their tweets because we were only learning what a tweet was. Asking a device sitting on your desk or nightstand to perform a task on command happened in movies, not our real lives. 

But here we are now, where conversations about cyber threats, the sharing economy, driverless technology and automated everything is part of ordinary life.   

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