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PART II: Maps, Music, Pictures, and the Web > 11: The Web
11
The Web
The Skim
Surfing the Web on Your Phone Installing Flash Player to View the Whole Web
Using Browser Windows
Bookmark Sites
Save Pictures from the Web
Install an Alternate Browser
Search the Web from the Home Screen
Use Voice Search
Few technologies have changed the world as quickly as the web. While the inventions of the wheel, the printing press, and sliced bread might, in the bigger sense, be more important, none took hold of our collective consciousness as quickly as the web, which in 2010 was only 20 years old. Equally as interesting is the fact that no one saw the web coming. In the 1960s, Star Trek predicted an impressive array of modern technology, including mobile phones and portable computers, but if you go back and rewatch the whole series, you will never hear Mr. Spock tell Captain Kirk that, rather than asking about the capabilities of that Romulan ship or whether that planet is habitable, he could just Google it.