What I really love is that the iPod touch and iPhone are having apps now that can greatly influence the technology realm. Right now at our campus, the College of Medicine is using iPods and iPhones to give direct feeds of Cat-scans and X-rays, laying down templates that can cross reference and find cancer. Our Tech Specialist Tristain wound up making an app that can detect Malaria from a few images of blood cells. They have truly become tricorders of Star Trek lore. The Datapads that Jake Cisco used to type his stories on, and Worf read his security reports on, iPads.
Steve Jobs took us a significant step towards the cyberpunk era. Now it's just Angry Birds and iTunes, but just you wait. Soon form will follow into function and user interface will facilitate science to a level of full integration. I read that you can buy a toy helicopter now for only $300 that is controlled by BRAINWAVES. I kid you not, and amputee veterans are not only manipulating artificial limbs with such, but also FEELING the things they touch from signals sent back to them.
You know what this means, don't you? Science Fiction has become reality. Unfortunately, society has taken kind of a Soylent Green meets 1984 aspect too, but hey, soy paste bacon is a small price to pay for living room holodecks. (now Nintendo Wii just needs visors and feedback suits)