This website: http://isstracker.com/ is en example of so many technologies and trends in this world, I find it beautiful.  But then I'm a geek.

1. The ISS.  I know, I know many people argue it doesn't have a compelling mission beyond just being a space station but I still think it's vital.  We are continuing and extending our knowledge about how humans can live, work and build in space.
2. Global mapping tools that are now available at our fingertips.  Like cell phone cameras, maps.live.com and maps.google.com and mapquest and all the others are now ubiquitous in our world.   Remember the Thomas guides to find where you were going? 
3. Mashups: Information and tools put into the hands of ordinary Joes.  Anybody with a modicum of skill can build this site.
4. Now we have a 2+2=5 type of equation.  And you as a member of the intertubes viewing public have an ISS live tracker system at your fingertips.  Think of that.  You don't have to be in the control center of NASA to track the space station.  You can be in your pajamas, click click click.  Oh yeah there she is, over Bermuda.

Cool.