What Would Gene Roddenberry Do: A 20/20 Vision of Knowledge Acquisition

Imagine we are living in the year 2020 — just 8 short years from the present. The human race is officially inter-connected via ubiquitous Web 5.0 technologies on a global basis with no above ground dead spots. These technologies exist as virtual extensions of our minds and bodies in the form of miniaturized, handheld and wrist-mounted devices (remember the old wristwatches?) that are always on and fully functional at a 99 percent reliability rate.