It was 1994 and there was no such thing as WiFi or wireless internet.

But I did have a laptop (a very heavy one) and used it at home from time to time.

One evening after dinner, I was working on my laptop in the dining room, papers spread across the oak table, the gentle hum of the machine filling the quiet space.

The screen cast a blue glow on my face as I finished the report that was due tomorrow morning.

"Finally done," I sighed with relief. "Now I just need to print this before the meeting."

My sister, passing through with a cup of tea, paused and commented, "Can you do that from here?"

I looked at her with horror, my brow furrowing in disbelief.

And I thought to myself, what is wrong with you…

do you think I can magically reach the printer from the basement to the upstairs?

Did she not understand the fundamental limitations of physical connections?

"No," I explained slowly, as if talking to a child.

"My printer is in the basement. That means I have to go downstairs and plug in my laptop to the printer in order for it to actually work. There's this thing called a cable that has to connect them."

She shrugged and continued on her way, seemingly unfazed by my condescending tone.

I thought her question was kinda dumb at the time.

I remember rolling my eyes after she left, lugging my twelve-pound laptop down the creaky basement stairs, muttering about basic technology literacy.

But it looks like I'm the dumb one...

She had an open mind about the technology of the future.

She wasn't constrained by what was possible at that moment. She was imagining what could be.

Just twelve years later, I would sit in that same dining room, wirelessly printing documents from my much lighter laptop without a second thought.

Things change.

Technology changes.

Sometimes we cannot imagine what will be next.

Boy did I learn that we need to keep our minds open.

When someone mentions something that doesn't exist today, we should think 'hmmmm, I wonder if that will happen in the future'.

You just never know what's possible, right?

Nothing is dumb, it is just unexplored.

And sometimes the people we think are asking silly questions are actually the visionaries among us.